Education
He attended Newington College (1974–1979) and Street Andrew"s College within the University of Sydney.
He attended Newington College (1974–1979) and Street Andrew"s College within the University of Sydney.
His position was scrum-half. He is probably best remembered for winning the 1991 World Cup with his team against England. He now works at Taurus Funds Management, appears as a television rugby commentator on United Kingdom Sky Sports and is the chairman of the New South Wales Union.
Not selected for the First XV at Newington, Farr-Jones played his early first grade rugby for Sydney University and worked as a lawyer when rugby was an amateur sport.
By this stage he was known as one part of Australia"s "holy trinity" (the other two being David Campese and Michael Lynagh). Indeed, of Campese"s then world record 64 international tries, Farr-Jones had a hand in 46 of them.
His temperament under pressure was questioned, though he was the subject of particularly nasty and provocative foul by opposite number Robert Jones, who in an effort to unsettle him, stamped a studded boot onto the top of Farr-Jones" right foot, which had recently been injured. The 1991 Bledisloe series was closely fought, ending in a tie and the Wallabies arrived in the British Isles in good form for the World Cup.
He carried a knee injury into the tournament and was rested for the pool game against Samoa and substituted in the quarter-final midway through the second-half with what looked like a serious injury.
He briefly retired from the sport at this stage but was persuaded back for the final two homes tests against South Africa in 1993, after Australia lost the opening match in the series. Farr-Jones was capped 63 times for Australia, including 36 as captain (then a world record), and scored nine tries. During his career, he formed a world record half-back combination with Michael Lynagh of 47 Tests together.
Farr-Jones is a self-described "praying" Christian.
1992: Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of service to the sport of Union football.
Quotations: "We had to tackle till our shoulders were red raw just to keep them out".