# Peter Moir

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{{Short description|Australian dual-code rugby player (1882–1921)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}}
{{Use Australian English|date=July 2013}}
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|birth_date          = 1882
|birth_place         = [Bathurst, New South Wales](/source/Bathurst%2C_New_South_Wales), Australia
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'''Peter Moir''' (1882–1921) was an Australian rugby footballer of the early 1900s who was a key figure in the foundation of [rugby league in Australia](/source/rugby_league_in_Australia).<ref>{{cite web|last=nswrl.com.au|title=History|url=http://nswrl.com.au/default.aspx?s=history|work=New South Wales Rugby League|publisher=[NSWRL](/source/New_South_Wales_Rugby_League)|access-date=9 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007101805/http://nswrl.com.au/default.aspx?s=history|archive-date=7 October 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was one of Australia's first [national representative](/source/Australia_national_rugby_league_team) players appearing in the inaugural professional series against New Zealand in 1907 and making the [1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain](/source/1908%E2%80%9309_Kangaroo_tour_of_Great_Britain). In 1907 he played for [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales_rugby_league_team) in the very first rugby match run by the newly created '[New South Wales Rugby Football League](/source/New_South_Wales_Rugby_Football_League)' which had just split away from the established [New South Wales Rugby Football Union](/source/New_South_Wales_Rugby_Football_Union).

==Union career and dissent==
Moir played rugby for Bathurst and Glebe, gaining selection for the [New South Wales rugby union team](/source/New_South_Wales_rugby_union_team) in 1903.<ref>{{cite web|last=drummoynerugby.com.au|title=Honourboard – New South Wales representatives|url=http://www.drummoynerugby.com.au/snr/Honourboard/NSWRepresentatives.asp|work=Drummoyne District Rugby Football Club|publisher=[Drummoyne DRFC](/source/Drummoyne_DRFC)|access-date=9 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150304131446/http://drummoynerugby.com.au/SNR/Honourboard/NSWRepresentatives.asp|archive-date=4 March 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

At the time concerns were starting to be raised over rugby football and cricket administrations' treatment of their players, Moir was a frequent visitor to Australian international cricketer [Victor Trumper](/source/Victor_Trumper)'s sporting goods store at [Market Street, Sydney](/source/Market_Street%2C_Sydney).<ref>{{cite web|last=Fagan, Sean|author-link=Sean Fagan|title="Nothing but a nine-day wonder": The founding of Rugby League – Australia's first professional football code|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/documents/Fagan_transcript.pdf|work=[Tom Brock Lecture](/source/Tom_Brock_Lecture)|publisher=[Australian Broadcasting Corporation](/source/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation)|access-date=9 October 2011}}</ref> Moir and Trumper, along with [Alec Burdon](/source/Alec_Burdon), [J J Giltinan](/source/J_J_Giltinan) and [Henry Hoyle](/source/Henry_Hoyle) attended one such meeting in 1907 to form a new governing body for rugby football in New South Wales and organise a team to host [Albert Baskiville](/source/Albert_Baskiville)'s similarly rebellious touring New Zealand rugby team.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mallet|first=Ashley|title=Victor Trumper|url=http://www.victortrumper.com/articles/mallspeech2.htm|work=Official Site|publisher=victortrumper.com}}</ref>

==Professional career==
When the Australian leg of the [1907–1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Australia and Great Britain](/source/1907%E2%80%931908_New_Zealand_rugby_tour_of_Australia_and_Great_Britain) commenced, Moir played for the first ever [New South Wales rugby league team](/source/New_South_Wales_rugby_league_team) at second-row forward against the "All Golds".<ref>{{cite web|last=Shawn Dollin and Andrew Ferguson|title=New South Wales Firsts vs. New Zealand|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/All_Blacks_Tour_1907/Game_1/NSW_Firsts-vs-New_Zealand.html|work=All Blacks Tour 1907/08|publisher=Rugby League Project|access-date=9 October 2011}}</ref> Although played under rugby union rules, this match was professional (all players received £1) and was the first rugby match not sanctioned by the [New South Wales Rugby Football Union](/source/New_South_Wales_Rugby_Football_Union) and thus was essentially Australia's first rugby league match.

[[File:Kangaroos tour 1908 1909.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Moir (back row, 3rd from left) Pioneer [Kangaroos 1908-09](/source/1908%E2%80%9309_Kangaroo_tour_of_Great_Britain)]]The following year, the [1908 NSWRFL season](/source/1908_NSWRFL_season), the first of the [New South Wales Rugby Football League](/source/New_South_Wales_Rugby_Football_League), commenced and Moir played for [Glebe RLFC](/source/Glebe_RLFC).<ref>{{cite web|title=Player Profile – Peter Moir|url=http://www.yesterdayshero.com.au/PlayerProfile_Peter-Moir_5819.aspx|work=Yesterday's Hero|publisher=SmartPack International Pty Ltd}}</ref> He made two state representative appearances for [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales_rugby_league_team) against [Queensland](/source/Queensland_Maroons) that year and at season's end he was selected to tour with the inaugural [Kangaroos](/source/Australia_national_rugby_league_team) on the [1908–09 tour](/source/1908%E2%80%9309_Kangaroo_tour_of_Great_Britain). He played in only four matches of the tour none of them Test matches.

Following the Kangaroo tour he retired and took on an administrative role with the Glebe club. He was only 39 years old when he died at the Coast Hospital, Malabar on 10 June 1921 after contracting blood poisoning.<ref>{{cite book
| last = Hudson, Glen 
| first = & Whiticker, Allan
| title = The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players
| publisher = Gary Allen Publishing
| year = 2006
| location = Australia
| id = p348
}}
</ref><ref>''The Sydney Morning Herald'' – Death Notice (11 June 1921)</ref>

Peter Moir was awarded Life Membership of the [New South Wales Rugby League](/source/New_South_Wales_Rugby_League) in 1914.<ref>Referee, Sydney-''Life Members of the NSW Rugby League''- 13 May 1914. (page 12)</ref>

==References==

===Bibliography===
* [Whiticker, Alan](/source/Alan_Whiticker) & Hudson, Glen (2006) ''The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players'', Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171010124413/http://www.allgolds.net/ The All Golds]

===Footnotes===
{{Reflist}}

{{1908-09 Kangaroo Tour squad - The First Kangaroos}}

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Category:1882 births
Category:1921 deaths
Category:Australia national rugby league team players
Category:Australian rugby league players
Category:Australian rugby union players
Category:Glebe rugby league players
Category:New South Wales rugby league team players
Category:New South Wales rugby union team players
Category:Date of birth missing
Category:Rugby league players from Bathurst, New South Wales
Category:Footballers who switched code
Category:Rugby league forwards
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen

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