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Born | 10 January 1941 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 2 April 2012 71) | (aged|||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Father | Corey Stewart (son) |
Bruce 'Lapa' Stewart (1941–2012), an Indigenous Australian, was a rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby League, playing as a winger.
A La Perouse local, Stewart played for South Sydney in the junior and lower grades before joining the Eastern Suburbs club in 1967, where he scored 10 tries from his 24 appearances. He also represented NSW Country firsts. [1]
Stewart died on 2 April 2012. [2]
His son, Corey Stewart, also played for Eastern Suburbs.
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