Laidley Burge (1896–1990) was a
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 112 ...
footballer in New South Wales during the 1910s and 1920s.
Playing career
Burge played seven seasons and 64 first grade games for the
Glebe Dirty Reds
The Glebe Dirty Reds are an Australian rugby league foundation club which played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League's Sydney premiership, the major competition for the sport in Sydney, from 1908 until their exit at the end of 1929. Th ...
between 1916 and 1922, many of them alongside his brother
Frank Burge
Frank Burge (14 August 1894 – 5 July 1958) was one of the greatest forwards in the history of rugby league in Australia. Later Burge became one of the game’s finest coaches. His club career was with Glebe and the St. George Dragons. He repr ...
.
He and Frank formed a front-row partnership in the Glebe side that contested the
1922 NSWRL Grand final against North Sydney which Glebe lost 35-3 at the
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in Sydney, Australia. It is used for Test cricket, Test, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket, as well as, Australian rules football and occasionally for rugby league, rugby union and as ...
. He retired from rugby league after that game.
Death
Burge died on 17 September 1990, age 93 at his home at
Gold Coast, Queensland
The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the state of Queensland, Australia, approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital Brisbane. With a population over 600,000, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, the nati ...
and was the last of the famous Burge brothers to die.
See also
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Burge Family
References
Sources
* Andrews, Malcolm (2006) ''The ABC of Rugby League'', Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
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Whiticker, Alan (2004) ''Captaining the Kangaroos'', New Holland, Sydney
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Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) ''The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players'', Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney
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Whiticker, Alan & Collis, Ian (2006) ''The History of Rugby League Clubs'', New Holland, Sydney
* Heads, Ian & Middleton, David (2008) ''A Centenary of Rugby League'', MacMillan, Sydney.
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Howell, Max (2005) ''Born to Lead: Wallaby Test Captains'', Celebrity Books, Auckland, NZ.
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Australian rugby union players
Australian rugby league players
Rugby league second-rows
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Glebe rugby league players
Laidley
1896 births
1990 deaths
Rugby league players from Sydney