Peter Dimond
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| Full name | Peter James Dimond | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 November 1938 Dapto, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 April 2021 (aged 82)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Dimond (28 November 1938 – 21 April 2021) was an Australian
Cronulla Sharks and Canberra Raiders utility Craig Dimond. Peter was named both in the Western Suburbs Team of the Century and the Wests Tigers
Team of the Century.
Playing career
Dimond was selected at age 14 in a New South Wales schoolboy side in a curtain raiser to the 1952 Australia and New Zealand Test match.
While still a teenager, Dimond was selected to represent
1958. He played in all four of the club's grand final losses to the great St. George side. They lost 20–9 in 1958 with Dimond playing five-eighth, 22–0 in 1961, 9–6 in 1962 and 8–3 in 1963.[4]
He was called up to play on the
the Ashes for Australia on British soil for the first time. His final appearance in the Australian team came in the third and deciding test match against Great Britain in 1966 when Australia again retained the Ashes. At the time he left the club, Dimond held the record of a total of 83 tries for Western Suburbs. After leaving Western Suburbs he played out the rest of his career for a local Newcastle
team in the early 1970s.
Accolades
On Friday 24 September 2004 the Western Suburbs Magpies honoured their greatest ever players by naming their Team of the Century. Dimond was named on the wing.[6] In 2008 the Western Suburbs Magpies celebrated their centenary by inducting six inaugural members into the club's Hall of Fame. These six included Dimond.[7]
In 2010 Dimond was named in a South Newcastle team of the century.[8]
References
- ^ @westsmagpies (21 April 2021). "VALE Peter Dimond - Magpie #562 🏳🏴@westsmagpies are saddened to learn of the passing of Magpie Hall of Famer & fo…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Rugby League Project
- ^ Yesterday's Hero
- ^ "Western Suburbs Magpies First Grade Players". Wests Magpies.
- ^ sahof.org.au. "1963 Kangaroos Team". Team Sport Australia Award. Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ westsmagpies.net (2008). "Western Suburbs Team of the Century". Wests Archives. Western Suburbs Magpies R.L.F.C. Archived from the original on 21 October 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
- ^ westsmagpies.net (2008). "Western Suburbs Magpies Hall of Fame". Wests Archives. Western Suburbs Magpies R.L.F.C. Archived from the original on 14 October 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
- The Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 30 December 2011.