John Barnett

John Thomas "Towser" Barnett (19 January 1881 – 2 October 1918) was a pioneer Australian rugby union and rugby league footballer who won an Olympic gold medal for rugby at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was one of Australia's early dual-code rugby internationals. Rugby union career A hooker/prop with the Newtown Rugby Union club in Sydney, Barnett was selected five times to play representative rugby for Australia. His debut was against New Zealand, in Sydney, on 20 July 1907. Barnett was selected to the first Wallaby 1908–09 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, the squad captained by Herbert Moran. That side competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and Barnett was a member of the Australia national rugby union team captained by Chris McKivat which won the gold medal.