Dave Brown (rugby league footballer Easts)

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Captain of the Australia national rugby league football team

**Dave Brown**
Personal information

Full name	Dave Michael Brown
Date of birth	1913
Place of birth	Hurstville, Australia
Date of death	1974
Position	Centre
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
1930-1936 1937-1938 1939-1941	Eastern Suburbs Warrington Eastern Suburbs
Representative teams
1930-1936 1933-1936	New South Wales Australia	19 (120) 9 (73)
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

David Michael Brown (born 1913 in Sydney, New South Wales, died 1974) was an Australian rugby league player for the Eastern Suburbs club and the English club Warrington. Brown has often been heralded as one of the games greatest players partly due to many of the records he broke while playing over seventy years ago still stand today. Brown also represented Australia on several occasions throughout his career, his position of choice was at centre.

[edit] Eastern Suburbs

He began his sporting career while at Sydney's Waverley Christian Brothers' College playing rugby union but before long decided to try and establish a career for himself in rugby league and in early 1930 signed on to the Eastern Suburbs club. Before long Brown had already established himself in the clubs first grade side making the centre position his own, two years later when he was only nineteen years of age Brown suddenly lost all of his hair and from then on constantly wore distinctive leather headgear in all games that he played, which eventually became somewhat of a trademark for him.

From 1932 to 1936 under Brown's captaincy Eastern Suburbs became the dominant team in the league competation, winning the minor premiership on three occasions and winning the league twice. It was during this time that Brown set the record of scoring 38 tries in the 1935 Sydney competition season. That season, he also set the most points in single game record (45) against Canterbury. In 1936 Brown signed on for Warrington for three seasons before returning to Easts for one final season in 1940 where he yet again guided his side to a premiership victory.

Several years after his retirement he has often been dubbed the 'Bradman of League' an allusion to the great Australian cricketer Sir Donald Bradman as both men had a habit of scoring a vast amount of points per game in their respective sports.

[edit] International

Brown toured England in 1933 and while here set an all-time record of 285 points for the tour, a record that still remains unbroken to this day, in 1936 he captained Australia for the first time against the touring Englishmen. He made 9 Test appearances in total for Australia between 1933 and 1936.