# Jimmy Clarken

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{{short description|Australia international rugby union player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}}
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'''James C. Clarken''' (19 July 1876 – 31 July 1953) was a [rugby union](/source/rugby_union) player who represented [Australia](/source/Australia).

Clarken, a [prop](/source/prop_(rugby_union)), was born in [Thames, New Zealand](/source/Thames%2C_New_Zealand) and claimed a total of 4 international rugby caps for Australia<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239177493 Australian Rugby Team (Touring America), 1912, ''The Daily Telegraph'', (Wednesday, 18 September 1912), p. 15.]</ref> His debut game was against New Zealand, at Dunedin, on 2 September 1905.

Clarken and [Harald Baker](/source/Harald_Baker) (brother of [R. L. "Snowy" Baker](/source/Snowy_Baker)) are remembered for their heroic rescues in the [Coogee](/source/Coogee%2C_New_South_Wales) surf disaster of 28 January 1911.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164298440 |title=Coogee Surf Tragedy: Four Lives Lost |newspaper=[The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser](/source/The_Sydney_Mail_and_New_South_Wales_Advertiser) |volume=XCI |issue=2569 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 February 1911 |access-date=16 June 2022 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==See also==
* [1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the United States](/source/1912_Australia_rugby_union_tour_of_Canada_and_the_United_States)

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Category:1876 births
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Category:Australia international rugby union players
Category:Australian rugby union players
Category:Rugby union players from Thames, New Zealand
Category:Rugby union props
Category:Colony of New Zealand people
Category:New Zealand emigrants to Australia
Category:New South Wales rugby union team players

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