George Treweek

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George Treweek was an Australian rugby league player, a towering second-row forward who formed an integral part of the champion South Sydney Rabbitohs teams of the 1920s and early 1930s. He is rated as one of the finest second-row forwards ever to play for Australia.

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[edit] Club career

Treweek won six premierships with South Sydney. He captained Souths in the 1931 and 1932 premiership victories. All up Treweek played 120 games for Souths between 1926 to 1934.

[edit] Representative career

He made 18 Test appearances for the Australian national representative side. His test debut was against the touring Great Britain team in 1928. He toured Great Britain with 1929-30 Kangaroo team playing in four tests and 22 games in all and scoring six tries. Treweek also played seven games for NSW.

[edit] Accolades

In 2004 he was named by the Souths in their South Sydney Dream Team,[1], consisting of 17 players and a coach representing the club from 1908 through to 2004. In 2006 he was inducted into the ARL Hall of Fame.

In February 2008, Treweek was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908-2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.[2][3]

[edit] Sources

  • Andrews, Malcolm. The ABC of Rugby League. Australia: ABC Books, 2006.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ South Sydney Dream Team from the official South Sydney website.
  2. ^ Peter Cassidy. "Controversy reigns as NRL releases top 100 players", Macquarie National News, 2008-02-23. Retrieved on 2008-02-23. 
  3. ^ Centenary of Rugby League - The Players. NRL & ARL (2008-02-23). Retrieved on 2008-02-23.