Vince Bermingham | |
Full Name: | John Vincent Bermingham |
Birth Date: | 24 May 1907 |
Birth Place: | Greenmount, QLD, Australia |
Death Place: | Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
Occupation: | Farmer |
School: | Warwick Technical College |
Position: | Prop |
Repyears1: | 1934–37 |
Repcaps1: | 3 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
John Vincent Bermingham (24 May 1907 — 22 July 1983) was an Australian rugby union international.
A native of Greenmount, Queensland, Bermingham received his education at Warwick Technical College.[1]
Bermingham was a powerfully built prop, who was a state amateur heavyweight boxing champion. Capped three times for the Wallabies, he played both Tests in a Bledisloe Cup-winning series against the All Blacks in 1934, then a match against the touring 1937 Springboks.[2] He also played rugby league for Toowoomba club Valleys.[3]
Bermingham was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 for service to the dairy industry.[1]
Wallabies hooker Matt Faessler is his grandson.[4]