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A brief glimpse of Dally Messenger kicking off before a Great Britain Tour match in 1954. The match took place in Gunnedah and Messenger was the guest of honour. Messenger was the greatest rugby player in Australia in the early part of the 20th Century. He was lured to the professional rugby competition when they began in 1907. He joined the NZ All Golds on their tour of GB in 1907 and then led...

The 1954 Rugby League Lions arrived in Australia in a confident mood after regaining the Ashes in a 2-1 series win in England in 1952/53. (This was the first team to fly across the world rather than sail) The Australian team was also confident of winning on home soil, led by captain Clive Churchill and Vice Captain Duncan Hall. Both teams were chock full of future 'Hall of Famers' and the serie...

The 1954 Rugby League Lions arrived in Australia in a confident mood after regaining the Ashes in a 2-1 series win in England in 1952/53. (This was the first team to fly across the world rather than sail) The Australian team was also confident of winning on home soil, led by captain Clive Churchill and Vice Captain Duncan Hall. Both teams were chock full of future 'Hall of Famers' and the serie...

The 1954 Rugby League Lions arrived in Australia in a confident mood after regaining the Ashes in a 2-1 series win in England in 1952/53. (This was the first team to fly across the world rather than sail) The Australian team was also confident of winning on home soil, led by captain Clive Churchill and Vice Captain Duncan Hall. Australians were shrugging off the effects of the Second World War ...

1996 Student World Cup. Mills, Suey, & Evans combine to send Wardle over for this great try. Australia V Wales

A collection of rare playing highlights from the 1940s and 50s. Clive Churchill is regarded as the greatest Australian rugby league player by many, but most of his career was not caught on film. Here are a few clips of him in action. Speed, passing skill, kicking skills, courage in defence, and a 'never give in' attitude.

1951 French Rugby League team tour to Australia and defeat the Kangaroos convincingly. Led by the chain-smoking, goal kicking genius, Puig Aubert, the French defied the odds to defeat a star studded Australian Team. Puig Aubert (born Robert Aubert Puig, 24 March 1925 - 3 June 1994), is often considered the best French rugby league footballer of all-time.

Legendary British Rugby League player Vince Karalius - The Wild Bull of the Pampas, is sent off in a match versus New South Wales on the 1958 tour to Australia.

Rugby League cult figure Mark Tookey was a wrecking ball when he ran the ball. As an 18 year old he took the world by storm at the 1996 Universities World Cup in England. This is just one of many tries he scored at that tournament but in a crucial semi final game against the kiwis it was perhaps the most important.

The 3rd Rugby League Test of the 1950 series against Great Britain was a pivotal moment in Australian Rugby League. Australian winger Ron Roberts scored late in the match to seal the first series win over GB in 30 years. But the match is remembered for the atrocious pitch conditions after weeks of torrential rain in Sydney. It is a far cry from the pristine playing fields of the modern era.

BRIAN CARLSON - Newcastle born and bred, He simply loved to play. He was an Australian Test captain in 1961, the best and fairest player among the four competing nations at the 1957 World Cup and a prolific try scorer on two Kangaroo tours. Incredibly, Carlson achieved his highest honours after suffering a near fatal injury in a match in Wollongong in 1954. While playing for the Christian Broth...

Rugby League Great Noel Kelly was a hard man. In this clip Kelly lands a great left hook on the jaw of Kiwi prop Rob Orchard. Orchard had 'coathangered' Australian five eighth Johnny Gleeson. This is how Rugby League was played in a bygone era. Born and raised in Ipswich Qld. Kelly began his playing days at Railways in 1957 and then moved to Brothers for the 1958 and 59 season. He represented I...

Have you ever seen the Kangaroos do their war cry? The war cry was done at the start of every match on Kangaroos Tours for 60 years. It used indigenous language for the song that went with it. It go t'lost' after this tour. "Wallee Mullara Choomooroo Tingal" (We are a race of fighters descended from the War Gods) Here is the 1967 Kangaroos performing the war cry and dance before the 3rd test at...

1996 University Rugby League World Cup Final. Australia V Samoa. The Willows, Salford, England. Australia win 38 - 16. Mark Tookey, Aaron Smith, Phil Lockwood, Gavan Minz, Matt Evans, Andrew Lee, Matt Miller, Derek Brady, Grant Hardy, Mick Brennan, Dale Mills, Jack Suey, Jason Wardle, Ben Phillips, Thurston, Jabourry,

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