Brian Wright is an Australian former
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 11 ...
footballer who played for
South Sydney and
Eastern Suburbs Eastern Suburbs may refer to:
Places
*Eastern Suburbs (Mumbai), India
*Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Australia
**Eastern Suburbs railway line, Sydney, Australia
Sports clubs
;Association football
*Eastern Suburbs AFC, Auckland, New Zealand
* Eastern ...
in the
New South Wales Rugby League premiership competition.
Wright began his
New South Wales Rugby League
The New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) is the governing body of rugby league in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and is a member of the Australian Rugby League Commission. It was formed in Sydney on 8 August 1907 and was ...
(NSWRL) career with South Sydney in 1957 making 15 first grade appearances with that club. In 1960 the
forward joined Eastern Suburbs, playing 29 matches in his two years at that club.
Wright was a member of the
Easts side that went down to
St George in the 1960
Grand Final
Primarily in Australian sports, a grand final (sometimes colloquially abbreviated to "grannie") is a game that decides a sports league's premiership (or championship) winning team, i.e. the conclusive game of a finals (or play-off) series. S ...
. He is one of only a handful of players to be
sent off
In sports, an ejection (also known as dismissal, sending-off, disqualification, or early shower) is the removal of a participant from a contest due to a violation of the sport's rules. The exact violations that lead to an ejection vary depending ...
in a Grand Final after Wright and St George's forward,
Kevin Ryan, were dismissed for fighting midway through the second half of the match.
References
Career playing statistics
Point scoring summary
Australian rugby league players
Sydney Roosters players
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rugby league players from Sydney
South Sydney Rabbitohs players
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