DIARY UPDATE: Week 10, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 10 2019 TUESDAY, MARCH 19 Former Welsh rugby league player, Mike Murphy (I know, he should have played for Ireland) has died, aged […]
Tag Archives: BOB BAx
‘OUR GAME’ – SPEECH BY STEVE RICKETTS
Chairman of the Queensland Rugby League History Committee, Steve Ricketts addressed the recent QRL administrative conference on the Gold Coast, about the establishment of the code in this state. A […]
FLASHBACK: April 1969
APRIL 1969 Aussie rules convert, Barry Spring kicked four field goals for Norths in a 13-9 win over Valleys in the Easter Monday clash at Lang Park, one of them […]
FLASHBACK: April 1949
APRIL 1949 The Courier-Mail’s L H Kearney described Norths’ 19-17 win over Wests in the Brisbane President’s Cup pre-season competition as ‘the greatest upset in rugby league history’. Perhaps Kearney […]
FLASHBACK: April 1979
APRIL 1979 Wally Lewis, Ross Strudwick and Peter McWhirter were rated ‘the most deadly rugby league trio in town’ after Valleys began the 1979 Brisbane premiership campaign with a 30-8 […]
FLASHBACK
JANUARY 1979 The Courier-Mail’s Barry Dick trumpeted Mal Meninga as a player to watch in the 1979 Brisbane Rugby League season, after the giant centre starred for the Queensland under-18s […]
FLASHBACK: February 1978
FLASHBACK: February 1978 Second rower, Gary Walker made an impressive Brisbane Rugby League debut – for Norths – in the Woolies pre-season competition. Walker was signed by Norths’ president, and former […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 7, 2016
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Finish work on my ‘first chapter’ (1960) in Steve Haddan’s book about Brisbane Rugby League, ‘Our Game’. It was a hard slog, but enjoyable. In 1960, champion coach, Bob Bax […]
FLASHBACK: August 1971
Centre, Brian Adams scored a last minute try to give Queensland a courageous 19-18 win over New South Wales Country in front of a hostile crowd at the Newcastle International […]
FLASHBACK: April 1966
There were dire predictions about the future of the Bulimba Cup inter-city rugby league competition after the Bob Bax coached Brisbane representative side thrashed title holders, Toowoomba 30-5 at Lang Park. The Courier-Mail’s […]
FLASHBACK: September 1970
The Courier-Mail’s Jack Reardon described the week from August 30 to September 6, 1970 as the blackest in the history of Past Brothers Rugby League Club in Brisbane. Worse was […]
FLASHBACK: September 1970
Master coach, Bob Bax described the 1970 Brisbane grand final as the best he had seen, and his team was on the wrong end of the scoreline. Bax’s Norths Devils […]
