Ken Yanz
Birth nameKenneth Yanz[1]
Date of birth(1929-05-18)18 May 1929[1]
Place of birthHornsby, New South Wales[1]
Date of death5 February 2019(2019-02-05) (aged 89)
Place of deathSydney, New South Wales
SpouseJune
Rugby union career
Position(s) flanker[1]
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
Gordon RFC ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1958[1] Wallabies 1[1] (0[1])

Kenneth Yanz (18 May 1929 – 5 February 2019[2]) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.

Yanz, a flanker, was born in Hornsby, New South Wales and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia on the Wallabies' 1957–58 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and France and played for New South Wales.

Career

Born in the Sydney suburb of Hornsby, Yanz learned his rugby playing for the Lane Cove Rugby Club and Gordon Juniors. After high school, he worked his way up through Gordon. He played regularly in North Harbour v South Harbour matches and for the Sydney XV and was selected for the Australia national rugby union team 1957–58 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and France. He played in the Test against France in Paris. He later played for the New South Wales Team and was appointed Captain of Gordon, where he set a club record for games played.[3] In 2012, Yanz recalled his playing days for a documentary about the history of Lane Cove Rugby by Theo Clark Media.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Scrum.com player profile of Ken Yanz". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "VALE KEN YANZ | Gordon Rugby Club". Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  3. ↑ Jack Pollard, Australian Rugby Union the Game and the Players, Angus & Robertson, 1984.
  4. ↑ Rugby News : Volume 26, Issue 16, Jim Davis, August 2012


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