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 Australia national rugby league team in 13 matches on the 1963 Kangaroo tour.

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[edit] Union career

A champion schoolboy athlete Lisle broke into first grade in 1959 with the Sydney suburban club, Drummoyne DRUFC (the "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.

Along with Kevin Ryan , Jimmy Lisle made his international league debut in a tour match in Great Britain 1963 but he did not play in any Tests on the tour. Collectively he and Ryan are were Australia's 29th and 30th dual code rugby internationals.

Ronald James "Jimmy" Lisle died in 2003.

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

[edit] League playing record

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ South Sydney Dream Team from the official South Sydney website.