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Gerry Brand
Gerhard Hamilton Brand (8 October 1906 – 4 February 1996) was a Springbok rugby union footballer who played in 16 tests between 1928 and 1938. Brand has been described as the best kicker of his era,〔 as well as a "magnificent defensive player" with a "wonderful tackle".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.espnscrum.com/southafrica/rugby/player/3561.html )〕 According to Guinness World Records he executed the longest drop goal in rugby union to date.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-3000/longest-drop-kick-rugby-union/ )〕 Brand's 55 test career points for the Springboks set a 27-year record (1938–65), which was eventually surpassed by Keith Oxlee.〔〔Before Brand, the previous record for most points in all test matches played had been held by Bennie Osler, who had amassed 46 points in 17 test caps by his retirement in 1933.(())〕
==Early life==
Gerhard Hamilton Brand received his second name for the Hamilton Rugby Football Club in Sea Point, Cape Town, which had won the Western Province Rugby Football Union's 1906 Grand Challenge Cup club competition two days〔According to an alternative source Brand was born on the day of Hamiltons' victory over Stellenbosch.()〕 before his birth. He grew up in Sea Point and learnt rugby from the age of 8.
He attended Sea Point Boys High School,〔 and as a young man played scrum-half for Hamiltons, whose name he carried.〔 He was an introvert, according to his friend, Danie Craven.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genslin.us/bokke/SARugby.html )〕 In 1936 Brand helped Hamiltons win the provincial championship, a feat the club did not repeat for the next 73 years. The club instituted the Gerry Brand trophy for best full-back which was awarded to a Hamiltonian annually.
During the rugby off-season Brand and his fellow Hamilton players supported and played for the local baseball team, the Sea Point Cardinals. A 1934 Australian newspaper described Brand as an accomplished baseball player,〔 and he did attain provincial colours in that sport. The newspaper speculated that Brand could be chosen for a proposed exchange of baseball tours between South Africa and Japan.〔
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