Terry Hughes 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 112 ...

footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s.

Playing career

After playing for the Wentworthville club in Sydney's second division, he was signed by first grade

New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership The New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the first rugby league football club competition established in Australia and contributor to today's National Rugby League. Run by the New South Wales Rugby League (initially named the New Sout ...

club Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks to be their in their first season. Also the new club's goal-kicker, that year Hughes was the Sharks' top-point scorer. He was also Cronulla-Sutherland's first representative player, turning out for Sydney Seconds against Country in the club's debut season. The following season he won the inaugural Rothmans Medal for best and fairest player in 1968. Following the Sharks' signing of

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, Hughes returned to Wentworthville to play out the rest of his career.

References

External links

Terry Hughes at stats.rleague.com
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