{{Short description|Australia international rugby union & league player & Rugby League coach}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Neville Emery | image = | caption = | full_name = Neville Allen Emery | birth_date = {{birth date|1924|06|19|df=y}} | birth_place = Bexhill, NSW, Australia | death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|1991|09|10|1924|06|19|df=y}}}} | death_place = Booyong, NSW, Australia | height = | weight = | occupation = | school = Shore School | university = | relatives = Phil Emery (son) | position = Fly-half | repyears1 = 1947–49 | repteam1 = {{nrut|Australia}} | repcaps1 = 10 | reppoints1 = 3 | module = {{infobox rugby league biography | embed = yes | club1 = Whitehaven | year1start = 1951 | coachteam1 = Whitehaven | coachyear1start = 1951 | coachyear1end = 56 }} }}
'''Neville Allen Emery''' (19 June 1924 — 10 September 1991) was an Australian rugby union international.
Raised in Lismore, Emery finished his schooling at Sydney Church of England Grammar School. He was a Combined GPS 1st XV captain and also played as a wicket-keeper for the GPS XI.<ref name="ClassicWallabies">{{cite web |title=Neville Allen Emery |url=https://classicwallabies.com.au/players/neville-allen-emery |website=classicwallabies.com.au |language=en}}</ref>
A RAAF officer during the war, Emery served with the No. 467 Squadron in the UK.<ref name="ClassicWallabies"/>
Emery, a fly-half, was renowned for his ball handling skills and played first-grade for Sydney University after the war. He was a member of the Wallabies between 1947 and 1949, gaining 10 Test caps, which included all five international matches on the 1947–48 tour of Britain, Ireland, France.<ref name="ClassicWallabies"/>
During the 1950s, Emery was based in England, captain-coaching Cumbrian rugby league club Whitehaven for several seasons.<ref>{{cite news |title=Memories shared as those wartime days are revisited |url=https://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/17180924.memories-shared-as-those-wartime-days-are-revisited/ |work=Whitehaven News |date=24 February 2005 |language=en}}</ref> He also played cricket for Cumberland in the Minor Counties Championship.<ref>{{cite web |title=Neville Emery |url=https://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/109/109672/109672.html |website=CricketArchive}}</ref>
Emery's son Phil was an Australian Test cricketer.<ref>{{cite news |title=Highlanders at their peak after a double triumph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121525762/ |work=Sydney Morning Herald |date=27 October 1994}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Australia national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|4976}}
{{Whitehaven RLFC coaches}}
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