James Victor Brown is a former Australian Rugby Union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 player who played for the Wallabies

Australia national rugby union team

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 nine times.

Early life

Brown was born in Sydney

Sydney

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 and attended Newington College

Newington College

Newington College is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Stanmore, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

 (1947–1951) from where he was selected to play rugby in the GPS Ist XV. Post school he became a member of Randwick

Randwick DRUFC

Randwick District Rugby Union Football Club, also known as the Galloping Greens, is an Australian rugby union club which competes in the Sydney grade competition. The club was formed in 1882 and since then has won 31 first grade premierships and seven Australian club championships...

 pack as hooker joining Nick Shehadie.

Representative career

At the age of twenty Brown was selected to represent New South Wales

New South Wales

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 against Queensland

Queensland

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. The following year he played in his first test match

Test match (rugby union)

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 against South Africa

South Africa

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. He retired from representative rugby after the 1957-58 tour of Britain, France

France

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 and North America

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. He was known for his fiery personality and was on one occasion was sent off during training by the Australian coach, Denis Cowper, a fellow Old Newingtonian.