1951 NSWRFL season

1951 NSWRFL season
1951 NSWRFL season
Teams 10
Premiers South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney (13th title)
Minor premiers South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney (12th title)
Matches played 94
Points scored 3400 (total)
36.17 (per match)
Top try scorer(s) South Sydney colours.svg Johnny Graves (28)

The 1951 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the forty-fourth season of Sydney's top-level rugby league football competition, Australia's first. Ten teams from across the city competed for the newly-created J. J. Giltinan Shield during the season which culminated in a grand final between South Sydney and Manly-Warringah.

Contents

Season summary

South Sydney ascended to the minor premiership with relative ease in 1951, losing only one match during the season to finish the regular season ahead by a record 11-point margin.

Balmain home jersey 1940.svg
Balmain
Canterbury home jersey 1935.svg
Canterbury-Bankstown
Eastern Suburbs home jersey 1914.svg
Eastern Suburbs
Manly Sea Eagles home jersey 1951.svg
Manly-Warringah
Newtown Jets home jersey 1908.svg
Newtown
North Sydney Bears home jersey 1951.svg
North Sydney
Parramatta Eels home jersey 1949.svg
Parramatta
South Sydney home jersey 1908.svg
South Sydney
St. George home jersey 1945.svg
St. George
Western Suburbs home jersey 1950.svg
Western Suburbs

Ladder

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 18 16 1 1 428 237 +191 33
2 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 18 11 0 7 424 262 +162 22
3 St. George colours.svg St. George 18 10 1 7 374 251 +123 21
4 Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 18 10 0 8 360 333 +27 20
5 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 18 9 0 9 304 340 -36 18
6 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 18 9 0 9 309 410 -101 18
7 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown 18 7 0 11 266 362 -96 14
8 Newtown colours.svg Newtown 18 6 0 12 261 341 -80 12
9 Balmain colours.svg Balmain 18 6 0 12 283 365 -82 12
10 North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney 18 5 0 13 220 328 -108 10

Finals

Odds-on favourites to retain the premiership, Souths reserved their worst performance of the year for the semi-final against St George being trounced 35-8. This loss meant that a grand final would be necessary to determine the season's premiers.[1] The next week, the Dragons were beaten by a gutsy Manly side in a preliminary final, 18-8. The infant Manly club thus qualified for its first final only five seasons after having entered the League in 1947.

Home Score Away Match Information
Date and Time Venue Referee Crowd
Semi Finals
South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 8-35 St. George colours.svg St. George 1 September 1951 Sydney Cricket Ground Aub Oxford 39,735
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 37-9 Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 8 September 1951 Sydney Cricket Ground George Bishop 29,444
Preliminary Final
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 18-8 St. George colours.svg St. George 15 September 1951 Sydney Cricket Ground George Bishop 41,845
Final
South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 42-14 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 23 September 1951 Sydney Sports Ground Jack O'Brien 28,505

Grand Final

South Sydney Position Manly-Warringah
Clive Churchill FB Ron Beaumont
John Graves WG Jack Lumsden
Kevin Woolfe CE Warren Simmons
Milton Atkinson CE Gordon Willoughby
Harry Wells WG Ron Rowles
Norm Spillane FE Jim Sullivan
Ray Mason HB Ken Arthurson
Denis Donoghue PR Roy Bull
Ernie Hammerton HK Kevin Schubert (c)
Bryan Orrock PR Fred Brown
Bernie Purcell SR Jack Hubbard
Jack Rayner (Ca./Co.) SR Sandy Herbert
Les Cowie LK George Hunter
Coach Wally O'Connell

Manly were without former Test star and captain-coach Wally O'Connell who had a fractured bone in his wrist.[2] His side was instead captained by hooker Kevin Schubert. Gordon Willoughby played out the match with his leg heavily strapped rather than leave his side further depleted but Manly's hopes of upsetting the defending premiers were shattered in a spectacular display of attacking football by Souths.

Manly defenders trying to stop Souths Winger Johnny Graves from scoring the first of his four tries.

The smallest crowd for a final since 1944 was on hand at the Sports Ground to witness a one-sided game which Souths won 42-14. A highlight of the record win was Test winger John Graves' four tries in the match - the only time this has been achieved in grand final history.

Souths scored first through Bernie Purcell and led 15-4 at the break. They then piled on 27 points in the second-half. Tries to Clive Churchill, Ray Mason, Jack Rayner and Chick Cowie added to Graves' record haul. The Rabbitohs pack dominated Manly's forwards with Ernie Hammerton giving his team a feast of possession. Bernie Purcell landed seven goals from nine attempts and was also dynamic in attack, being chosen by The Sunday Herald judge, Frank McMillan as the man-of-the-match, for which he received a £10 reward.[3]

Other records set that day include the most points ever scored in a grand final (66 total); the most tries scored by one team in a grand final (8), a mark later matched by Eastern Suburbs in 1975 Grand Final and the most goals scored in grand final (9).

South Sydney Rabbitohs 42
Tries: Graves (4), Churchill, Mason, Rayner, Cowie
Goals: Purcell (7), Hammerton, Donoghue.

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 14
Tries: Lumsden (2)
Goals: Rowles (4)

References


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • 1967 NSWRFL season — Teams 12 Premiers South Sydney (17th title) Minor premiers …   Wikipedia

  • 1983 NSWRFL season — Teams 14 Premiers Parramatta (3rd title) Minor premiers …   Wikipedia

  • 1976 NSWRFL season — Teams 12 Premiers Manly Warringah (3rd title) Minor premiers …   Wikipedia

  • 1978 NSWRFL season — Teams 12 Premiers Manly Warringah (4th title) Minor premiers …   Wikipedia

  • 1960 NSWRFL season — Teams 10 Premiers St. George (7th title) Minor premiers …   Wikipedia

  • 1974 NSWRFL season — Teams 12 Premiers Eastern Suburbs (10th title) Minor premiers …   Wikipedia

  • 1975 NSWRFL season — Teams 12 Premiers Eastern Suburbs (11th title) Minor premiers …   Wikipedia

  • 1981 NSWRFL season — Teams 12 Premiers Parramatta (1st title) Minor premiers …   Wikipedia

  • 1958 NSWRFL season — Teams 10 Premiers St. George (5th title) Minor premiers …   Wikipedia

  • 1909 NSWRFL season — Teams 8 Premiers South Sydney (2nd title) Minor premiers …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”