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Kerry Boustead
Personal information
Born (1959-08-12) 12 August 1959 (age 64)
Innisfail, Queensland, Australia
Playing information
PositionWing, Centre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1977–78 Souths (Innisfail)
1979–82 Eastern Suburbs 80 32 0 0 96
1983–86
Manly-Warringah
 65 30 0 0 120
1985–87 Hull Kingston Rovers 15 6 0 0 24
1988–90 North Sydney Bears 33 8 0 0 32
Total 193 76 0 0 272
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1978–84
Queensland
 9 8 0 0 28
1978–84
Australia
 25 15 0 0 46
1979–81
New South Wales
 6 3 0 0 9
Source: [1][2]

Kerry Boustead (born 12 August 1959) is an Australian former

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.[3]

Background

An Innisfail junior and younger brother of 1976 Queensland representative Ian Boustead, Boustead was a Queensland Schoolboy representative.

Playing career

1970s

Boustead made his first grade début with Innisfail Souths in 1977. He first represented for

1978 Kangaroo tour
.

All up he made twenty-five Test appearances for Australia and played in eighteen minor matches on two

The Invincibles
.

In 1979 the

New South Wales in 1979 under residential selection criteria, Boustead represented Queensland in the first ever State of Origin match in 1980
. He scored Queensland's first ever try in State of Origin and is one of a handful of players to have scored 3 tries in an Origin game.

Ironically, Boustead was initially against the State of Origin concept, believing that players should represent the state where they currently lived and played.

1980s

Boustead played in the centres in Easts' loss to

Manly-Warringah
for four seasons.

In the Australian off-seasons he played in the UK for

1986 Kangaroos. However leg, collarbone and shoulder injuries seriously disrupted the momentum of his career in this period. In 1986 while still at Manly he played in only seven matches of the 25 round regular season. In 1988 Boustead resumed his career with the North Sydney Bears making thirty-three appearances in his last three seasons, including playing in the Bears 1989 Reserve Grade premiership winning team,[4] before retiring at the end of 1990
.

Post-playing career

In the late 1980s after a survey was conducted to gauge public support for the introduction of a North Queensland team in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership returned an overwhelming positive response, a major step was taken with the appointment of a promotions manager for the bid. Boustead was appointed to this task in 1990. He was also coaching rugby league in the Winfield State League at this time and North Queensland became the first regional side to win the competition in 1991 under Boustead.[5] Boustead was instrumental in the Cowboys being awarded an ARL licence in 1995.

In 2000 he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in the sport of rugby league.

Boustead returned to the game as the Chief Executive of the newly promoted North Queensland Cowboys in 1995 but resigned after five competition matches when the club aligned itself with Super League. He served on the NRL Judiciary Tribunal from 1997 to 1998 and in 2000.

In February 2008, Boustead was named in the list of the

Australian Rugby League to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.[6]
Surprisingly Boustead's position was usurped in the Queensland Team of the Century announced on the night of game II of the
Cec Aynsley and Denis Flannery
.

In 2009 Boustead was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.[7] In 2015 Boustead was chosen to be the Cowboys CEO for the 2015 NRL Season

References

  1. ^ Kerry Boustead stats at rugbyleagueproject.com
  2. ^ Yesterday's Hero Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Century's Top 100 Players Archived 25 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Bears vs Eels, Reserve Grade Grand Final 1989
  5. ^ Kerry Boustead at the SportingPulse Homepage for Northern Division Archived 10 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ARL. 23 February 2008. Archived from the original
    on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
  7. ^ "Mr Kerry Boustead". Queensland Sport Hall of Fame. qsport.org.au. Retrieved 20 January 2014.

Sources

  • Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
  • Big League's 25 Years of Origin Collectors' Edition, News Magazines, Surry Hills, Sydney
  • Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney

External links

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