Clarence Warwick Prentice (1 July 1891 – c. 1948) was an Australian rugby union

Rugby union

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 and rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 footballer who represented his country at both sports - a dual-code rugby international. He is the younger brother of fellow Wests player Ward Prentice

Ward Prentice

Warden Selby Prentice was an Australian sportsman who captained Australia at rugby union and New South Wales at first-class cricket and also played first-grade rugby league for the Western Suburbs Magpies....

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Rugby union career

Prentice played rugby union with the Western Suburbs Rugby Club in Sydney and represented with the Wallabies

Australia national rugby union team

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 as a prop in 1914 against the All Blacks

All Blacks

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Rugby league career

In 1915 Clarrie and his brother Archie joined the Western Suburbs Rugby League Club

Western Suburbs Magpies

The Western Suburbs Magpies are an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as they are commonly referred to, were one of the nine foundation clubs of the first New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia...

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His international rugby league debut against New Zealand in Wellington on 23 August 1919 alongside Claud O'Donnell

Claud O'Donnell

Claud Augustus O'Donnell was an Australian rugby union and rugby league player and represented his country at both sports - a dual-code rugby international.-Rugby union career:...

 saw them become Australia's 20th and 21st dual code rugby internationals. It wasn't until 18 years later that Doug McLean jnr would become the next Australian dual representative.

Clarrie was selected on the 1921-22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. He played in all three Tests of the tour and in 22 other tour matches for Australia.

Sources

• Whiticker, Alan (2004) Captaining the Kangaroos, New Holland, Sydney
• Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League, Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney