Ken Wright (rugby)
Appearance
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Born | Malabar, New South Wales, Australia | 11 April 1956|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 71 kg (11 st 3 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Centre, Five-eighth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ken Wright (born 11 April 1956 in Malabar, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s.
Playing career
[edit]He started his football career in rugby union at the Randwick club in 1974. A pivotal moment in his representative career came in 1975 when, representing Sydney against the touring international team, he appeared to sidestep the entire opposition forward pack to score a try.
He was selected to represent Australia in 1975 and went on to play nine international tests. Wright's rugby union career lasted until the end of 1978 when, in 1979, he converted to rugby league and joined Eastern Suburbs and later South Sydney in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership competitions.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Rugby League Project
- ^ NRL Stats[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Men's Honour Roll". Sydney Roosters. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
External links
[edit]- Whiticker, Alan; Hudson, Glen (2007). The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. Wetherill Park, New South Wales: Gary Allen Pty Ltd. p. 609. ISBN 978-1-877082-93-1.
- Gary Lester, ed. (1983). The Sun Book of Rugby League – 1983. Sydney, New South Wales: John Fairfax Marketing. p. 78. ISBN 0-909558-83-3.
Categories:
- Living people
- Rugby league players from Sydney
- Australian rugby league players
- Australian rugby union players
- Sydney Roosters players
- South Sydney Rabbitohs players
- 1957 births
- Australia international rugby union players
- Rugby league centres
- Rugby league five-eighths
- Rugby union players from Sydney
- Randwick DRUFC players
- Rugby union fly-halves
- New South Wales rugby union team players
- Australian rugby league biography, 1950s birth stubs