Des O'Connor 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 in the 1960s and 1970s.
Playing career
O'Connor came from St. George's rugby union ranks to play for
Newtown in the late 1960s. He played five seasons with
Newtown between 1968 and 1973 and captained the club to victory in the 1973 Wills Cup Final against
St George Dragons
The St. George Dragons is an Australian rugby league football club from St George District in Sydney, New South Wales that played in the top level New South Wales competition and Australian Rugby League competitions from the 1921 until th ...
.
He retired at the end of the 1974 season after successfully taking the Newtown reserve grade team to the premiership. Des O'Connor became treasurer of
Newtown in the 1980s.
[Alan Whiticker/Glen Hudson: Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. 1995. ()]
References
Newtown Jets players
Australian rugby league players
Living people
Australian rugby league administrators
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rugby league halfbacks
Place of birth missing (living people)
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