THE WALLAROO FOOTBALL CLUB, Australia’s first football club dedicated to rugby, was founded in Sydney in 1870. Guided by Australian-born Rugby School ‘old boys’, Wallaroo was Sydney’s version of the now famous London member-based rugby clubs Richmond (1861), Blackheath (1858), Harlequins (1866) and Wasps (1867). Throughout the late 1800s, Wallaroo was Sydney’s premier club 14…