page_title: Syd Malcolm
section_title: Representative career
hierarchical_section_title: Syd Malcolm / Representative career
caption_attribution_description: Wallabies Aust RU 1934 The Wallaby victory in the 1st Test v NZ 11 Aug 1934 enabled Australia to win the w:Bledisloe Cup for the 1st time from the w:All Blacks. Team comprises (though not in order): Alex Ross, w:Doug McLean, Jnr., w:Cyril Towers, Dooney Hayes, Jack Kelaher, Wally Lewis, w:Syd Malcolm, Ted Jessep, Edward Bonis, Vincent Bermingham, Bill White, w:Weary Dunlop, Owen Bridle, Walter Mackney, w:Aub Hodgson. Ross is at far right, Malcolm 3rd from right, Towers is sixth from left. E.S. "Dooney" Hayes, fifth from the right. Died in WWII. Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop is best known for his courageous and compassionate leadership of approximately one thousand Australian troops held as prisoners of war by Japanese on the Thai-Burma railway during WW2.
context_page_description: Syd Malcolm was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative half-back who captained the Wallabies' on seventeen occasions between 1928 and 1933.
context_section_description: When the Waratahs toured New Zealand in 1928 Malcolm was named as captain. The team was full of new blood with only Cyril Towers and Geoff Bland continuing on for the 1927 World Tour squad. Syd Malcolm played in seven of the ten matches; five in total were won and five lost.
  In 1929 the All Blacks toured Australia, Tom Lawton took over as captain but Syd Malcolm was in the side which won all three Tests in an upset. With the Queensland Rugby Union now back in existence for the first time since 1919 this was the first truly national Wallabies side fielded since 1914 and the first time in history any nation had beaten the All Blacks in a 3-0 series whitewash.
  Great Britain toured Australia in 1930 and Malcolm played in two tests and twice against them for New South Wales. Then in 1931 a full Australian side was sent to New Zealand. Syd Malcolm was the captain and part of the senior playing group with Cyril Towers and Alex Ross from the 1927 side. They won three, drew one and lost six matches including the single Test. In 1932 Malcolm again met the All Blacks in three Test appearances when they came to Australia - he was captain in one of those encounters but also captained New South Wales against them.
  In 1933, Malcolm was in the squad that made Australia's first ever rugby tour of South Africa. He made eleven appearances including two Tests, one as captain. Syd Malcolm made his final international appearances against New Zealand in 1934, finishing his representative career after eight years and forty five internationals including eighteen Tests.
caption: Malcolm (3rd from right) with victorious Bledisloe Wallabies, 1st Test v NZ 11Aug1934
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