{{Short description|Australian rugby union international}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Neill Latimer | image = | caption = | full_name = Neill Buchanan Latimer | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|09|05|df=y}} | birth_place = Brisbane, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|02|02|1930|09|05|df=y}} | death_place = | height = 6 ft 4 in | weight = | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = | position = Lock | repyears1 = 1957 | repteam1 = {{nrut|Australia}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Neill Buchanan Latimer''' (5 September 1930 — 2 February 2012) was an Australian rugby union international.
Educated at Knox Grammar School, Latimer was a towering lock and played his rugby for Sydney club Gordon.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248694703 |title=Gordon Experiments With 'Giant' Forward |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=16 May 1953 |page=27 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Latimer's early career in first-grade rugby was limited due to his work at a remote cattle station in Queensland, missing the entire 1955 and 1956 seasons for Gordon.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229414548 |title=2500 Miles To Play Rugby Union |newspaper=The Sun |date=24 March 1954 |page=49 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> As such it was a surprise when he received a call up by the Wallabies in 1957 for a home series against the All Blacks, with his only previous representative experience being for the City seconds.<ref>{{cite news |title=All In The Game |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122680032 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=2 June 1957}}</ref> He was capped in the 2nd Test in Brisbane as a replacement for injured captain Alan Cameron.<ref>{{cite web |title=Neill Buchanan Latimer |url=https://classicwallabies.com.au/players/neill-buchanan-latimer |website=classicwallabies.com.au |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Australia national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|6159}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Latimer, Neill}} Category:1930 births Category:2012 deaths Category:Australian rugby union players Category:Australia international rugby union players Category:Rugby union locks Category:Rugby union players from Brisbane Category:Gordon RFC players Category:People educated at Knox Grammar School Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen