Ray Blackman is an Australian former professional

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 who played in the 1990s. Primarily a , he was a foundation player for the

North Queensland Cowboys The North Queensland Cowboys is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Townsville, the largest town in North Queensland. They compete in Australia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL). Sinc ...

Playing career

In 1991, Blackman started on the wing in the North Queensland Marlins side that defeated the

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in the Grand Final of the

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, scoring a try. In 1992, he scored two tries for the Marlins, renamed the Northern Division, in their Grand Final loss to the Brisbane Capitols. In Round 19 of the

1995 ARL season The 1995 ARL premiership was the 88th season of professional rugby league football in Australia, and the first to be run by the Australian Rugby League following the hand-over of the Premiership's administration by the New South Wales Rugby Leagu ...

, Blackman made his first grade debut for the

in a 22–6 loss to the

South Queensland Crushers The South Queensland Crushers were an Australian rugby league football club based in Brisbane, Queensland. In 1992 it was decided that the team would be admitted into the New South Wales Rugby League competition, along with three other teams, a ...

. In his first (and only) season with the Cowboys, Blackman started three games on the wing, scoring one try.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blackman, Ray Living people Australian rugby league players Indigenous Australian rugby league players North Queensland Cowboys players Rugby league players from Queensland Rugby league wingers Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)