{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Rick Bardsley | image = | caption = | birth_name = Eric John Bardsley | nickname = | birth_date = 1903 | birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = 1958 | death_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | height = | weight = | ru_position = Number 8 | amatyears1 = | amatteam1 = | ru_amupdate = | repteam1 = {{nrut|Australia}} | repyears1 = 1928 | repcaps1 = 3 | reppoints1 = | ru_ntupdate = | super1 = | superyears1 = | superapps1 = | superpoints1 = | super14update = | ru_currentclub = | other = | occupation = | family = | spouse = | children = | relatives = | school = Newington College | university = }} '''Eric [Rick] John Bardsley''' (1903–1958) was an Australian Rugby Union player and represented for the Wallabies three times.<ref>Australian Rugby – The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 48: Bardsley, Eric John "Rick" (1903 – 1958)</ref>
==Early life== Bardsley attended Newington College (1918–1923) and played Rugby in the 1st XV for three years.<ref>Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 9</ref>
==Rugby career== Bardsley played in the back row and represented Northern Suburbs Rugby Club in 139 1st Grade games. In 1928 he toured New Zealand and played in three Test matches.<ref>[http://www.northsrugby.com.au/default.asp?id=19 Norths Rugby Australian Representatives Honour Board] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930140954/http://www.northsrugby.com.au/default.asp?id=19 |date=30 September 2008 }}</ref>
==Club controversy== In 1942 Bardsley admitted to sending food parcels to Russia and after his patriotism to Australia was questioned by fellow members of Norths Rugby, he and his brother-in-law, fellow Wallaby Wal Mackney, resigned from the club.<ref>Australian Rugby – The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 315: Mackney, Walter Arthur Reginald (1903–1975)</ref>
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