The Mortimer brothers are a
rugby league
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football family.
First generation
Hailing from
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Wagga Wagga (; informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 56,000 as of June 2018, Wagga Wagga is the state's la ...
, Australia:
Chris Mortimer
Chris Mortimer (born 19 August 1959 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales)
is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s for the Canterbury-Bankstown, Penrith, New South Wales and for the Aus ...
,
Peter Mortimer and
Steve Mortimer
Stephen Charles Mortimer (born 15 July 1956), also nicknamed "Turvey", is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played as a . Mortimer played a Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs club record 272 first-grade games between 1976–88, winni ...
. The brothers are best known for their relationship with the
Canterbury-Bankstown Rugby League Football Club in the
New South Wales Rugby League
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competition from the mid-1970s to the current day as players and administrators.
The three brothers played together in four grand finals for Canterbury and all represented New South Wales; Chris and Steve going on to represent
Australia
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. All three Mortimer brothers are life members of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Football Club. Chris and Steve are inductees into the Riverina Sporting Hall of Fame.
, all three brothers scored in a historic performance for the Mortimers.
A younger brother,
Glen Mortimer
Glen Mortimer is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for Cronulla-Sutherland. He is also the brother to Chris Mortimer, Peter Mortimer and Steve Mortimer. The brothers were all raised in the Riverina city of ...
played 27 first grade games for
Cronulla
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between 1983-87 after starting out in the Bulldogs lower grades.
Second generation
Peter
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had five sons who all play rugby league. Most notably are
Daniel
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who plays for the Gold Coast Titans and Robbie who was contracted to the Balmain tigers and the Parramatta Eels in 2010/2011 before moving to Brisbane to play Queensland Cup for the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Intrust Super Cup. Daniel won an NRL Grand Final in 2013 and also a World Club Challenge in 2014.
References
External links
Steve Mortimer at RLP
Australian rugby league players
People from Wagga Wagga
Living people
Mortimer family (Australia)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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