FLASHBACK: October, 1970
OCTOBER 1970 Referee, Fred Lindop dealt out 15 cautions in a brutal World Cup rugby league match at Headingley, Leeds with Great Britain scoring the only try of the contest, […]
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FLASHBACK: March 1974
MARCH 1974 Former Great Britain rugby league halfback, Tommy Bishop vowed to make Australia his home, after signing as captain-coach of Norths Devils for the 1974 Bisbane premiership season. Tommy; […]
FLASHBACK: December 1967
Snow blasted the Australians as they confronted the old enemy, Great Britain in the Ashes deciding Third Rugby League Test, but the lads from down under handled the conditions better than the […]
FLASHBACK: December 1986
Australia belted France 52-0 at Carcassonne in a Test match that also was played for World Cup points. Australian winger, Dale Shearer scored four tries and fullback, Garry Jack three, in […]
FLASHBACK: November 1986
Australian skipper, Wally Lewis was heavily targeted by St Helens’ players in the seventh match of the 1986 Kangaroo tour of Britain and France. Three times Lewis was hit in back […]
FLASHBACK: November 1970
‘Get These Savages Off Our TV Screens’ That was the headline in one English newspaper after a vicious 1970 World Cup Rugby League final between Australia and Great Britain at […]
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