Jim Lisle

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Jimmy Lisle was an Australian rugby league and rugby union player - a dual code rugby international. He represented the Wallabies in 4 Tests in 1961 and the Kangaroos in 6 Tests from 1962 to 1963.

[edit] Union Career

A champion schoolboy athlete Lisle broke into first grade in 1959 with the Drummoyne Dirty Reds. He debuted for NSW in 1960 and in 1961 he played 3 Tests for the Wallabies against Fiji and one against South Africa. He played Rugby Union at fly half or centre.

[edit] League Career

He joined the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 1962 and played 106 grade games with the club till 1968. After just one appearance in the professional code in 1961 he was selected for New South Wales, and after just five club appearances he was selected in the all conquering 1963 Kangaroo tour of England and France. He played in the premiership winning Souths side of 1967. He played Rugby League at five-eighth.

Ronald James "Jimmy" Lisle died in 2003.