Vic Richards

Victor Richards was an Australian rugby union international.
Educated at Randwick [Boys High School], Richards received his lifelong nickname of "Shirts" during his schoolboy years, coined on account of the fact his father ran a men's mercery business. He left school at age 15.
Richards, a Coogee junior, was a halfback with considerable speed off the mark, whose career was beset by injuries.
A Randwick first-grade player, Richards was capped five times for the Australia national [rugby union team|Wallabies] as a fly-half. He earned his first call up for the 1934 Bledisloe Cup matches, but didn't make the XV until the 1936 Australia [rugby union tour of New Zealand|1936 tour of New Zealand], debuting against the All Blacks in Wellington. When South Africa toured the country in 1937, Richards was a member of the New South Wales team that inflicted the only Springboks loss of the tour. He was on the abandoned 1939–40 Australia rugby union [tour of Britain and Ireland|1939–40 tour of Britain] with the Wallabies and retired in 1940 on doctor's advice due to a chronic throat ailment.