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Chris Handy

Australian rugby union player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ74453435 ↗
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Chris Handy (born 28 March 1950) is a former rugby union football player, having played prop for both the Australia and Queensland. He played six internationals for Australia between 1978 and 1980.

Handy was educated at St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace in Brisbane where he played in the school first XV. After he left school he played his club rugby for Brothers Old Boys.

After his playing career finished Handy worked as a publican as well as a rugby union colour commentator and analyst for various television networks.

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The public source identifies “Chris Handy” as australian rugby union player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chris, Handy and Australian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 1978, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chris, Handy and Australian providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q74453435. The first chronological checks are 1950, 1978 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chris Handy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.