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Australian Rugby League's 100 Greatest Players
In late 2007, the Australian Rugby League and National Rugby League commissioned 130 experts to select the 100 best rugby league players in the game's 100-year history in Australia. The list was released in February 2008. From this list, a limited panel of experts picked a "Team of the Century" – a team of 17 players considered to be the best Australian players of all time. This team was announced in Sydney on 17 April 2008, see Australian Rugby League's Team of the Century. Rugby League's 100 Greatest Players Players are listed in alphabetical order. # Vic Armbruster, Mullumbimby, Toowoomba Valleys, Brisbane Grammars, Fortitude Valley, Bundaberg, Rochdale Hornets # Keith Barnes, Balmain # Harry Bath, Brisbane Souths, Balmain, Barrow, Warrington, St George # Jack Beaton, Eastern Suburbs # Arthur Beetson, Balmain, Eastern Suburbs, Parramatta, Hull KR # Brian Bevan, Eastern Suburbs, Warrington, Blackpool Borough # Cec Blinkhorn, North Sydney, South Sydney # Kerry Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Rugby League
The Australian Rugby League Commission Limited (ARL), formerly the Australian Rugby Football League Limited known as the Australian Rugby League is an Australian rugby league football competition operator. It was founded in 1986 as the Australian Rugby Football League Limited and succeeded the Australian Rugby Football League Board of Control which had been formed in 1924. Since its inception, the ARL has administered the Australia national rugby league team, Australian national team and represented Australia in international rugby league matters. Prior to 1998, the code in Australia had been principally administered by individual state leagues on a domestic basis, and the ARL on a national and international basis. Competitions The ARL controls the National Rugby League and NRL Women's Premiership as well as annual representative competitions such as the State of Origin series, the Indigenous All Stars Match, the Affiliated States Championship and the Women's rugby league in Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Barnes
William Keith Barnes AM (30 October 1934 – 7 April 2024), also known by the nickname of "Golden Boots", was a Welsh-born Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s, and coached in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He was a for the Australian national team and for the Balmain Tigers. He played in 14 tests between 1959 and 1966, as national captain on 12 occasions. He was known as "Golden Boots" due to his exceptional goal-kicking ability. After his playing days he became a referee and later co-commentated on the Amco Cup on Network Ten with Ray Warren in the 1970s. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. Background Barnes was born in Port Talbot, Wales on 30 October 1934. Early years Barnes was 15 when his family emigrated to Australia in 1950 to Wollongong where Barnes learnt the game at Wollongong High School. He was graded by the Wollongong club at age 19 as a half-back and in 1954 represented for Country and in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Clay
Brian Joseph 'Poppa' Clay (1935–1987) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a with the St. George Dragons during their 11-year consecutive premiership winning run from 1956 to 1966. He was a representative in the Australian national team in 1957 and from 1959 to 1960 earning five Test caps plus three World Cup appearances. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. Background Clay grew up in the inner Sydney suburb of St Peters. He played schoolboy football for Newtown Technical School and captained a New South Wales Schoolboys side. He began losing his hair as a teenager and early in his football career became known as 'Poppa'. Professional playing career Newtown Clay was graded by Newtown in 1953 aged 18. He played in the club's losing Grand final teams of 1954 and 1955, learning the ropes against the powerful early 1950s South Sydney sides. St. George & Representative career After C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Churchill
Clive Bernard Churchill Order of Australia, AM (21 January 1927 – 9 August 1985) was an Australians, Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach in the mid-20th century. An Australian Kangaroos, Australian international and New South Wales Rugby League team, New South Wales and Queensland Maroons, Queensland interstate representative , he played the majority of his club football with and later coached the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He won five premierships with the club as a player and three more as coach. Retiring as the most capped Australian Kangaroos player ever, Churchill is thus considered one of the game's greatest ever players and the prestigious Clive Churchill Medal for man-of-the-match in the NRL grand final bears his name. Churchill's attacking flair as a player is credited with having changed the role of the . Background Clive Churchill was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, and was a star schoolboy at Marist Brothers, Hamilton, New South Wales, Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Carlson
Brian Patrick Carlson (12 February 1933 – 14 April 1987) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a & utility back for the Australia national team. He played in 17 Tests and 6 World Cup games between 1952 and 1961, as captain on 2 occasions. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. Playing career Carlson was a naturally gifted athlete raised in Newcastle, New South Wales. He represented at district junior cricket, played 1st Grade cricket with the Wickham club in Newcastle, and was also a surf lifesaving competitor. After playing rugby league at school he was graded by the Newcastle Rugby League's Norths club in 1951. When the 1951 French rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand saw the powerful France national team come through Newcastle, 18-year-old Carlson was selected to play for the Newcastle team against them. In 1952 he scored two tries on representative debut for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Cann
Wiliam A. Cann (1882–1958) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s who later wrote for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. A New South Wales rugby league team, New South Wales state and Australia national rugby league team, Australia national representative Rugby league positions#Loose forward / Lock forward, lock forward, he has been named as one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. Cann played his club football for South Sydney Rabbitohs, South Sydney with whom he won the 1914 NSWRFL Premiership. In 1907 he played for New South Wales rugby league team, New South Wales in the first rugby match run by the newly created 'New South Wales Rugby Football League' which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union. Cann was also a long-term administrator at Souths and a football journalist. Playing career Cann, a contemporary of Dally Messenger and Albert Rosenfeld, began his playing career as a Rugby union thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Busch
Joe 'Chimpy' Busch (4 June 1907 – 29 May 1999) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. A state and national representative , his club career was played with Sydney-based teams Sydney Roosters, Eastern Suburbs and Balmain Tigers, Balmain, and British team Leeds, in the 1930s. He has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. Life and career Born in the country town of Maclean, New South Wales, Maclean, New South Wales, in 1907. As a newborn, one of his older brothers remarked that he looked like a chimpanzee and hence he gained the lifelong nickname 'Chimpy'. Busch was a fisherman who played in the local side, Harwood Island. In 1926, at the age of 19, he was spotted by Sydney Roosters, Eastern Suburbs talent scout John Campbell (rugby), John 'Dinny' Campbell, and invited to trial for a position in the team. Busch had to borrow the £5 return boat fare to Sydney. Busch trialled for selection with the Eastern Subu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Bull
Roy Bull (12 June 1929 – 29 June 2004) was an Australian rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ... footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s and spent his whole career – as player, coach & administrator – with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, Manly-Warringah club in Sydney. In addition to playing in three New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership grand finals, he was a representative for the New South Wales rugby league team and the Australian national rugby league team, Australian national side. He has since been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. Club career & playing style Bull attended Manly Boys High together and played his junior football with the Freshwater club. He made his first grade debut as a 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Brown (rugby League, Born 1913)
David Michael Brown (4 April 1913 – 23 February 1974) was one of Australia's greatest rugby league footballers. Brown in his distinctive headgear was said to be one of the most admired sights in the game during the 1930s. He won two premierships with Easts and scored so many points, tries and goals and established so many records (some may never be bettered) that he is referred to as "the Bradman of league". In 2003 Brown was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and in 2008 he was named in the New South Wales rugby league team of the century. In 2018, Brown joined Rugby League's elite by being inducted as a Rugby League Immortal. Background Brown was born Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. As a child, Brown lost the top of his thumb in a lawn-mowing accident. While playing football at school he badly broke an arm, dislocating the elbow and causing severe nerve damage which cost him the use of two fingers on his right hand. Despite these setbacks Brow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Boustead
Kerry Boustead (born 12 August 1959) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the late 1970s, 1980s, & early 1990s. A talented representative for Queensland and Australia, at the time he was picked for the national team he was the youngest ever player so selected. A prolific try-scorer, he has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. Background An Innisfail junior and younger brother of 1976 Queensland representative Ian Boustead, Boustead was a Queensland Schoolboy representative. Playing career Late 1970's Boustead made his first grade début with Innisfail Souths in 1977. He first represented for Queensland aged 18 in 1978 while playing for Innisfail Souths. Small in stature, Boustead outshone his giant New South Wales outside back rivals, Terry Fahey and Mark Harris, and that year he made his international representative début at 18 years and 310 days in 1978 in a Test against New Zealand thus becoming the youngest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cec Blinkhorn
Cyril "Cec" Blinkhorn (18 April 1892 – 8 April 1977) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s. He played in the NSWRFL premiership for the North Sydney Bears, North Sydney and South Sydney Rabbitohs, South Sydney clubs, and also represented New South Wales state rugby league team, New South Wales and Australia national rugby league team, Australia. He primarily played on the Rugby league positions#Winger, wing and has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. Biography Playing career Although born in Redfern, New South Wales, the middle of South Sydney Rabbitohs, Souths territory, Blinkhorn grew up a Norths supporter after moving to Chatswood, New South Wales, Chatswood. He was graded to Norths in 1914 and made his debut against South Sydney Rabbitohs, South Sydney on 15 August, 1914 at North Sydney Oval, and for five years he was the team's leading try-scorer. Blinkhorn spent the 1919 season at Souths, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Bevan
Brian Eyrl Bevan (24 January 1924 – 3 June 1991), also known by the nickname of "Wing Wizard", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He became the only player ever to be inducted into both the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and British Rugby League Hall of Fame. An Other Nationalities representative and the record try scorer in the history of the Rugby League European Championship, Bevan scored a world record 796 tries, mainly for Warrington. In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, he was named on the wing of Australia's Team of the Century (1908–2007). Bevan was the only player chosen in the team who had never represented Australia in a test match. Early years Brian Eyrl Bevan was born in Sydney on 24 January 1924. The son of former Eastern Suburbs' player Rick Bevan, Brian Bevan began his career playing for Easts in 1942. He made eight appearances for the club. When World War II be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
