Malcolm Blair

{{Short description|Rugby player (1905–1963)}}

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| full_name = Malcolm Rignall Blair

| birth_date = {{birth date|1905|03|08|df=y}}

| birth_place = Rockhampton, QLD, Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1963|08|12|1905|03|08|df=y}}

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| school = Sydney Grammar School

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| position = Prop

| repyears1 = 1928–31

| repteam1 = {{nrut|Australia}}

| repcaps1 = 3

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Malcolm Rignall Blair (8 March 1905 — 12 August 1963) was an Australian rugby union international.{{cite news |title=Out of Action |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/957059062 |work=The Referee |date=8 June 1932}}

A native of Rockhampton, Queensland, Blair was the youngest son of John Blair, an influential local journalist who was a proprietor of The Morning Bulletin. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, where he won a GPS premiership with the 1st XV in 1924, then after school played first-grade rugby for Western Suburbs.{{cite web |title=Malcolm Riggall Blair |url=https://classicwallabies.com.au/players/malcolm-riggall-blair |website=classicwallabies.com.au |language=en}}

Blair, a compact front-row forward, made the 1927–28 New South Wales tour of the British Isles and France.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103534649 |title=Waratahs Star As Leaders |newspaper=The Arrow |date=24 April 1931 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} He played against one international opponent on the tour, France in Paris, a match which was retrospectively awarded Test status, to reflect the fact the Waratahs were the country's only representative team at the time. In 1931, Morton toured New Zealand with the Wallabies, gaining further Test caps in one-off matches against New Zealand Māori and the All Blacks.