Sport | Rugby league |
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Inaugural season | 2023 |
Number of teams | 2 |
Most Recent Recipient | Billy Smith (2023) |
Most titles | Felise Kaufusi / Billy Smith (1 title) |
The National Rugby League's Artie Legacy Medal is an award that was inaugurated in the 2023 NRL season honor of rugby league Immortal Arthur (Artie) Beetson, who was himself a former player and coach of both the Redcliffe Dolphins and the Roosters.
It is intended that the Medal be "... played for and at every game between the two organisations that enabled him [Beetson] to achieve his Immortal status." [1]
Winning Team | Score | Losing Team | Medal Recipient | Match information | |||||
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Date and time | Venue | Referee | Crowd | ||||||
Dolphins | 28–18 [2] | Sydney Roosters | Felise Kaufusi [3] | Sunday 5 March 2023 (Round 1) | Suncorp Stadium | Chris Butler [4] | 32,177 [4] | ||
Sydney Roosters | 30-14 [5] | Dolphins | Billy Smith [6] | Saturday 12 August 2023 (Round 24) | Allianz Stadium | Todd Smith [7] | 13,704 [7] | ||
TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | Friday 2 August 2024 (Round 22) | HBF Park, Perth | TBC | TBC |
The National Rugby League is a professional rugby league competition in Australasia which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.
Arthur Henry "Artie" Beetson OAM was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He represented Australia, New South Wales and Queensland all between 1964 and 1981. His main position was at prop. Beetson became the first Indigenous Australian to captain Australia in any sport and is frequently cited as the best post-war forward in Australian rugby league history. He also had an extensive coaching career, spanning the 1970s to the 1990s, coaching Australia, Queensland, Eastern Suburbs, Redcliffe Dolphins and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.
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