1967 NSWRFL season

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1967 New South Wales Rugby Football League
Teams12
Premiers South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney (17th title)
Minor premiers St. George colours.svg St. George (13th title)
Matches played136
Points scored3827
Attendance1769881
Top points scorer(s) South Sydney colours.svg Eric Simms (233)
Top try-scorer(s) Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Les Hanigan (16)

The 1967 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 60th season of Sydney's professional rugby league football competition, Australia's first. The introduction of the Cronulla-Sutherland and Penrith clubs saw a total of twelve teams from across the Sydney area compete for the J.J. Giltinan Shield and WD & HO Wills Cup during the season, which culminated in a grand final between South Sydney and Canterbury-Bankstown. This was also the first live televised broadcast of a football grand final of any code in Australia. [1]

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Season summary

The 1967 season was the first played under the limited tackle rule, replacing the unlimited tackle rule previously used since the code's 1908 inception. [2] The number of tackles was four and would remain at that number for only four years before being increased to six in 1971.

Also this season Lidcombe Oval became the Western Suburbs club's homeground.

The twelve sides met each other twice in twenty-two regular premiership rounds before the top four teams battled out four finals. For the sixth consecutive season St. George finished as minor premiers. The two newcomers to the premiership, Penrith and Cronulla-Sutherland, finished the season second last and last respectively.

In 1967 the Nine Network reached agreement with the NSWRFL for a fee of $5,000 for TV broadcasting rights for the grand final.

South Sydney won their seventeenth premiership, defeating Canterbury-Bankstown in their first grand final since 1947. This finally spelled the end for St. George's monopoly on Grand Final wins which lasted over a decade, and commenced a new period of South Sydney dominance, during which they would win four premierships in a five-year period.

The 1967 season also saw the retirement from the League of future Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame inductee, Reg Gasnier.

Teams

1967 saw the NSWRFL expand to twelve teams with the introduction of the Penrith Panthers and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks clubs. [3] This was the first time the number of clubs had increased since 1947 and the first time ever the number of clubs competing totalled more than ten.

Balmain
Balmain Jersey 1964.png

60th season
Ground: Leichhardt Oval
Captain-coach: Keith Barnes

Canterbury-Bankstown
Canterbury-Bankstown Jersey 1963.png

33rd season
Ground: Belmore Sports Ground
Captain-coach: Kevin Ryan

Cronulla-Sutherland
Cronulla-Sutherland Jersey 1967.png

1st season
Ground: Sutherland Oval
Coach: Ken Kearney
Captain: Monty Porter

Eastern Suburbs
Eastern Suburbs Jersey 1967.png

60th season
Ground: Sydney Sports Ground
Coach: Jack Gibson
Captain: Jim Matthews

Manly-Warringah
Manly-Warringah Jersey 1965.png

21st season
Ground: Brookvale Oval
Coach: Wally O'Connell
Captain: Ken Day, Fred Jones

Newtown
Newtown Jersey 1915.png

60th season
Ground: Henson Park
Coach: Dick Poole
Captain: Brian Graham

North Sydney
North Sydney Jersey 1965.png

60th season
Ground: North Sydney Oval
Coach: Billy Wilson
Captain: Colin Greenwood

Parramatta
Parramatta Jersey 1963.png

21st season
Ground: Cumberland Oval
Captain-coach: Brian Hambly

Penrith
Penrith Jersey 1967.png

1st season
Ground: Penrith Stadium
Coach: Leo Trevena
Captain: Tony Brown→ Laurie Fagan

South Sydney
South Sydney Jersey 1965.png

60th season
Ground: Redfern Oval
Coach: Clive Churchill
Captain: John Sattler

St. George
St George Jersey 1959.png

47th season
Ground: Kogarah Oval
Captain-Coach: Ian Walsh

Western Suburbs

60th season
Ground: Lidcombe Oval
Captain-Coach: Noel Kelly

Ladder

TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts
1 St. George colours.svg St. George 221615437267+17033
2 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 221606422271+15132
3 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 221417349269+8029
4 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 221327269219+5028
5 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly 221228365271+9426
6 Balmain colours.svg Balmain 221228344258+8626
7 Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 2210210269255+1422
8 North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney 228113297370-7317
9 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 228014309322-1316
10 Newtown colours.svg Newtown 227213274406-13216
11 Penrith colours.svg Penrith 225215203352-14912
12 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla 223118208486-2787

Finals

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and TimeVenueRefereeCrowd
Semi-finals
Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown 13–2 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 26 August 1967 Sydney Cricket Ground Col Pearce47,186
St. George colours.svg St. George 8–13 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 2 September 1967 Sydney Cricket Ground Col Pearce51,915
Preliminary Final
St. George colours.svg St. George 11–12 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown 9 September 1967 Sydney Cricket Ground Col Pearce49,941
Grand Final
South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 12–10 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown 16 September 1967 Sydney Cricket Ground Col Pearce56,358

Grand Final

South Sydney RabbitohsPositionCanterbury-Bankstown
  1. Kevin Longbottom
FB
  1. Les Johns
2. Michael Cleary WG 2. Barry Reynolds
3. Bob Moses CE 3. Bob Hagan
4. Eric Simms CE 4. Johnny Greaves
5. Brian James WG 5. Clive Gartner
6. Jim Lisle FE 6. Bob Doyle
7. Ivan Jones HB 7. Ross Kidd
13. John Sattler (c) PR 13. Kevin Ryan
12. Elwyn Walters HK 12. Col Brown
11. John O'Neill PR 11. Kevin Ryan(c/coach)
10. Bob McCarthy SR 10. Kevin Goldspink
9. Alan Scott SR 9. George Taylforth
8. Ron Coote LK 8. Ron Raper
Clive Churchill Coach

Live television broadcast coverage of grand finals commenced in 1967 with the match being shown on all four Sydney channels. As a result, the crowd of 56,358 was the lowest seen at a grand final since the rainy 1962 St George and Wests decider. [4]

South Sydney, led by new skipper John Sattler, began their period of dominance by downing Canterbury in a torrid 80 minutes played in bleak conditions with a light rain throughout. Taylforth and Eric Simms opened accounts with early goals, before John O'Neill barged over for a close-range try from dummy half. Canterbury's Ron Raper responded with a field-goal kicked from halfway and then Taylforth punished Souths with two successful penalty goals after firstly a clash between Kevin Ryan and O'Neill and then a scrum infringement. Canterbury led 8–5.

A turning point came just before half-time when Rabbitohs second rower Bob McCarthy swooped on a lofted pass from Canterbury's Col Brown intended for Johnny Greaves and ran the length of the field to take Souths into the break with a 10–8 lead.

Taylforth kicked his fourth goal to take the scores level nine minutes into the second-half but from that point on the match became a tight arm wrestle. With five minutes remaining Canterbury's Ross Kidd was penalised for an incorrect scrum feed and Simms kicked the Rabbitohs to a two-point lead which they held to give them their 17th premiership title. [5]

It marked the beginning of a new golden period for Souths and Ron Coote, Mike Cleary, Bob McCarthy, O'Neill, Sattler and Simms would win four premierships in the next five seasons and figure prominently in representative squads of that period.

South Sydney 12 (Tries: O'Neill, McCarthy. Goals: Simms 3)

Canterbury-Bankstown 10 (Goals: Taylforth 4. Fld Goal: Raper)

Player statistics

The following statistics are as of the conclusion of Round 22.

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