He was educated at the Marist Brothers School, Greymouth.
[2] McBride played for the Blackball and Marist clubs in the West Coast Rugby League competition.
[4] He was first selected for the New Zealand national rugby league team in 1946 and toured Great Britain and France in 1947 and Australia in 1948.
In 1951 he got bitten during a "brutal match" between the Kiwis and the touring French.
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