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Wally Prigg
New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
PositionFive-eighth, Lock
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1927–28 Wests (Newcastle)
1928–39 Centrals (Newcastle)
Total 0 0 0 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1929–39
New South Wales
 34 13 0 0 39
1929–38 Australia 19 4 0 0 12

Wally Prigg (1908–1980) was an Australian

Australian national rugby league team.[1]
He has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.

Club and state playing career

Prigg back right with headgear before 1stTest Oct 1929
Run-on Test side 6 Jun 1932, Prigg, back row 2nd from left
Prigg with the 1937–38 Kangaroos, 2nd row far left

Wally Prigg was one of the great forwards in the history of rugby league. He spent his whole career as a Newcastle Wests and Central Charlestown player.

Australian national rugby league team.[1]

He made his first appearance for New South Wales at the age of 20. Between 1929 and 1939 he made 32 appearances for New South Wales, a record at the time. He scored twelve tries, thirty-six points for New South Wales. During his career he revolutionized the position of lock. His game was based around short passing and close support play.

Australian representative career

Prigg was selected to make the

Sid Pearce
, Prigg played 19 Tests for Australia between 1929 and 1938. He scored a total of four tries (twelve 12 points) for Australia.

Accolades

Post football Prigg operated a general store in the Newcastle suburb of Hamilton.

ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.[3][4]

In 2008 Prigg was named in New South Wales' rugby league team of the century.[5]

Prigg fifth from left, Kangaroos 1stTest Jun 1932

References

  • Whiticker, Alan (2004) Captaining the Kangaroos, New Holland, Sydney

External links

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Whiticker pp113-115
  2. ^ Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame Archived 18 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Peter Cassidy (23 February 2008). "Controversy reigns as NRL releases top 100 players". Macquarie National News. Archived from the original on 25 February 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
  4. ARL. 23 February 2008. Archived from the original
    on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
  5. ^ ARL (2008). "Australian Rugby Football League 2008 Annual Report" (PDF). Australian Rugby Football League Limited. p. 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
Preceded by
Australian national rugby league captain

1937-38 		Succeeded by
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