Related Research Articles
Clive Bernard Churchill AM was an Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach in the mid-20th century. An Australian international and New South Wales and Queensland interstate representative fullback, he played the majority of his club football with and later coached the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He won five premierships with the club as a player and three more as coach. Retiring as the most capped Australian Kangaroos player ever, Churchill is thus considered one of the game's greatest ever players and the prestigious Clive Churchill Medal for man-of-the-match in the NRL grand final bears his name. Churchill's attacking flair as a player is credited with having changed the role of the fullback.
Raymond Robert Ainsworth was an Australian rugby league player for the St. George club of the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL).
Johnny Cecil King is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He was a winger with the St. George Dragons for the last seven years of their eleven consecutive premiership-winning run from 1956 to 1966. He was a representative in the Australian national team from 1966 to 1970, earning 15 Test caps. He has been named among the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Edward George Green, was a pioneer Australian Rugby League player. He is reputed to have been the first Indigenous Australian to play rugby league at first-grade level in Australia.
Charlie Banks is an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. A state representative second-rower, he won the 1949 premiership with the St George Dragons and finished his career at the Eastern Suburbs club.
Harry Alfred Finch (1907–1949) was a professional rugby league footballer in Australia's leading competition - the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in the 1920s and 1930s. Finch was also an Australian international who played for both the Eastern Suburbs and South Sydney clubs.
Ron Roberts (1927–2003) was an Australian rugby league footballer. He was a state and national representative, who is known for scoring a try in 1950 which won Australia an Ashes series. His club career was with the St. George Dragons and he was a member of their 1949 premiership-winning side.
Frank William Whitcombe, also known by the nickname of "The Big Man", was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He played rugby union (RU) for Cardiff RFC, London Welsh RFC, Aldershot Services and Army Rugby Union, as a prop, i.e. number 1 or 3, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Rugby League XIII, and Wales, and at club level for Broughton Rangers and Bradford Northern, as a prop, i.e. number 8 or 10, during the era of contested scrums.
Arnott John 'Arnold' Traynor (1896-1976) was an Australian rugby league player who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He was a foundation player in the formative years of the St. George club and later captained St George's first grade premiership team.
Donald Richard Graham was an Australian rugby league player who played in the 1940s and 1950s.
Leslie Clive Griffin was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s.
Charlie Lynch (1891-1968) was a multi-premiership-winning Australian rugby league coach of the 1920s and 1940s.
Ernest Harold 'Tiger' Black BEM was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He later became a rugby league broadcaster and commentator.
Dan Munro (1922-2011) also known as Dave Munro was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s. He played for St George and Parramatta as a winger. Munro was a foundation player for Parramatta and played in the club's first ever game.
James Harold Flower (1907–1979) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s. Jim 'Pansy' Flower was the brother of Harry Flower who was also a St. George first grade player and NSW rep.
Nigel Kevin Watts was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s.
Dave Ross (1917-1998) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s.
Kenneth John McKenzie (1926-1998) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. McKenzie was later an Administrator at the St. George Dragons.
John Metcalf (1919-2007) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s.
Tom Briggs was an Australian rugby league footballer from the 1940s.
References
- ↑ "Vince Soorley - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project". Rugbyleagueproject.org.
- ↑ Sydney Morning Herald 28 May 1947 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18028138?searchTerm=vince%20soorley&searchLimits=l-state=New+South+Wales%7C%7C%7Cl-decade=194%7C%7C%7Cl-year=1947#
- ↑ Whiticker/Hudson "The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players" 1995 Edition ISBN 1875169571
- ↑ "Men's Honour Roll". Sydney Roosters.
- ↑ TWEED DAILY NEWS - Death Notice: 9/3/2010
 | This rugby league football biography relating to an Australian born in the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |