Angelo Crema

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Angelo Crema
Personal information
Full nameAngelo Fiori Crema
Born (1941-07-30) 30 July 1941 (age 83)
Playing information
PositionSecond-row
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1963–68 Queensland 1140012
1966 Australia 10000

Angelo Fiori Crema (born 30 July 1941) is an Australian former rugby league player.

A Tully cane farmer, Crema is one of five siblings born to Italian migrants and began playing rugby league while boarding at Downlands College in Toowoomba. He spent his entire first-grade career with Tully. [1]

Crema, a forward, was a regular Far North Queensland, North Queensland and Queensland representative player during the 1960s. He also made a single Test match appearance for Australia when he was chosen to replace Arthur Beetson in the second-row for their series opener against Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1966. [2]

In 2008, Crema was named in the North Queensland Team of the Century. [3]

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References

  1. "One Moment of Glory". The Canberra Times . 28 April 1985. p. 30 (Good Weekend) via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Big Change Here Again". The Sydney Morning Herald . 23 June 1966.
  3. "North's legends revealed". Townsville Bulletin . 31 May 2008. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008.