Max Elliott (rugby union)

Francis Maxwell Elliott (20 December 1929 – 23 March 1988) was an Australian rugby union international.^[1]

Max Elliott

Full name	Francis Maxwell Elliott
Date of birth	(1929-12-20)20 December 1929
Place of birth	Sydney, Australia
Date of death	23 March 1988(1988-03-23) (aged 58)
School	Scots College
University	University of Sydney
Occupation(s)	Medical practitioner
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1957 Australia 1 (0)

Elliott was born in Sydney and educated at Scots College. He had to play his rugby with a built-up left boot, the result of a childhood injury that stopped further growth of his left leg from the knee down.^[2]

A prop, Elliott won four first-grade premierships with the University of Sydney and also played for Eastern Suburbs. He was first called up by the Wallabies for the 1952 tour of New Zealand and gained further experience on the 1953 tour of South Africa, without appearing in the Test matches on either tour. His solitary cap came as a loosehead prop against the All Blacks at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1957, filling in for Nick Shehadie.^[2]

Elliott died of suicide in 1988 at the age of 58.^[3]

See also

• List of Australia national rugby union players

References

1. "Wallaby forward "outed"". The Daily Telegraph. 3 August 1954. p. 23 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "Francis Maxwell Elliott". classicwallabies.com.au.
3. Elliott, Tim (29 August 2014). "Farewell to the father". The Sydney Morning Herald.

External links

• Max Elliott at ESPNscrum