Des O'Connor is an Australian former
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 1960s and 1970s.
Playing career
O'Connor came from St. George's rugby union ranks to play for
Newtown in the late 1960s. He played five seasons with
Newtown between 1968 and 1973 and captained the club to victory in the 1973 Wills Cup Final against
St George Dragons
The St. George Dragons are an Australian rugby league, rugby league football club from the St George, Sydney, St George District in Sydney, New South Wales that played in the top level New South Wales Rugby League, New South Wales competition ...
.
He retired at the end of the 1974 season after successfully taking the Newtown reserve grade team to the premiership. Des O'Connor became treasurer of
Newtown in the 1980s.
[Alan Whiticker/Glen Hudson: Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. 1995. ()]
References
Newtown Jets players
20th-century Australian sportsmen
Australian rugby league players
Living people
Australian rugby league administrators
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rugby league halfbacks
Place of birth missing (living people)
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