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Peard is a life member of the Eastern Suburbs club. The John Peard Cup, which commenced in 2004, was named in his honour. [8] Peard suffered a life-threatening stroke in 2002 and he documents his rehabilitation in his autobiography Fine Thanks Mate: John 'The Bomber' Peard on Football, Life and Second Chances, released in April 2007. [9]
Waring travelled on HMS Indomitable with the Great Britain national rugby league team on the first post-war tour of Australia. Returning home via the United States, he met Bob Hope, who alerted him to the success of televised sport. This is believed to have convinced him that television would be crucial for rugby league's long-term success.
David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel Saville. He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for This Sporting Life in 1960.
He was the joint record holder for tries in one match for Hull KR scoring six in 1974, and was top of rugby league try scorers in 1974–75. Dunn won caps for England while at Hull Kingston Rovers in 1975 against Wales, in the 1975 Rugby League World Cup against Australia, France, New Zealand, Australia, and Australia, in 1975 against Papua New ...
Rugby League: Every Premiership Match (with Ian Collis), New Holland Publishers, 2013 ISBN 978-1-74257-437-0; Mud, Blood and Beer: Rugby League in the 1970s, New Holland Publishers, 2016 ISBN 978-1-74257-515-5; The State of Origin Companion: Interstate Rugby League Since 1908, New Holland Publishers, 2020 ISBN 978-1-76079-213-8
Arthur James Summons (13 December 1935 – 16 May 2020) was an Australian representative rugby union and rugby league player, a dual-code rugby international fly-half or five-eighth. He captained the Australian national rugby league team in five undefeated test matches from 1962 until 1964 and later also coached the side.
He later ran the New South Wales Rugby League, and then the Australian Rugby League during the 1990s' Super League war. Nothing Great is Easy: the Des Renford story (2000). --- Des Renford was an Australian athlete, who took up marathon swimming at the age of 39, and who swam the English Channel 19 times from 19 attempts.
Clive Bernard Churchill AM (21 January 1927 – 9 August 1985) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach in the mid-20th century. An Australian international and New South Wales and Queensland interstate representative fullback, he played the majority of his club football with and later coached the South Sydney Rabbitohs.