Mr Dick Marks

Sunday, 16 August, 1964 in Wellington. Wallabies 20, All Blacks 5 ... New Zealand's biggest Test match loss on home soil and a moment to behold for Australian rugby and a 22 year old Wallaby centre from Bundaberg via Brisbane Grammar, University and Queensland. 

The All Black's record loss would survive the test of time. So, too, would Dick Marks, who became a rugby great as a player, captain, coaching director and administrator. 

A Queensland stalwart and later captain through the 1960s, he played 51 times for Australia across the globe, including 17 Tests, and captained his country in 1967.

Appointed inaugural National Coaching Director in 1974, he filled this key role until 1995 and wrote a charter for the game that would bring continued success thereafter. 

Having served on the Board of Queensland Rugby, he was an inaugural member of the International Rugby Board technical committee and in 2014 recieved the prestigious Joe French Award for outstanding service to rugby. 

Still an influetial figure in the game, today Dick Marks joins the Queensland Hall of Fame.