{{Short description|Australian rugby union international}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Russell Manning | image = | caption = | full_name = {{nowrap|Russell Charles Sylvester Manning}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|01|10|df=y}} | birth_place = Brisbane, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | occupation = | school = Brisbane Boys' College | university = University of Queensland | relatives = | position = Fullback | repyears1 = 1967 | repteam1 = {{nrut|Australia}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Russell Charles Sylvester Manning''' (born 10 January 1945) is an Australian former rugby union international.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article259004124 |title=Services Successful Rugby Tour|newspaper=RAAF News |date=1 October 1967 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Manning was born in Brisbane and attended Brisbane Boys' College. As a schoolboy, he was a 1st XI cricket and 1st XV rugby team member, then played first-grade in both sports while studying law at the University of Queensland.<ref name="ClassicWallabes">{{cite web |title=Russell Charles Sylvester Manning |url=https://classicwallabies.com.au/players/russell-charles-sylvester-manning |website=classicwallabies.com.au |language=en}}</ref>
A fullback, Manning was capped once for the Wallabies, against the All Blacks at Wellington's Athletic Park in the only Test of the 1967 tour.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106970762 |title=Test RU team mainly city players |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=8 August 1967 |page=22 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He retired a season later to concentrate on a legal career.<ref name="ClassicWallabes"/>
==See also== *List of Australia national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|7289}}
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