John Wittenberg

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Johnny Wittenberg
Personal information
Full name John Wittenberg
Date of birth 1939
Place of birth Wide Bay, Queensland,
Date of death 2005
Place of death Wauchope, New South Wales,
Club information
Position(s) Prop forward
Current club Deceased
Senior clubs*
Years Club Apps (points)
1961
1962–1963
1964–1966
1968–1970		 Toowoomba
Wynnum-Manly Seagulls
Theodore
St George Dragons


53 (12)
Representative teams
1962–1966
1968–1970
1966–1970		 Queensland
New South Wales
Australia		 8 (3)
5 (0)
6 (0)

* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only.

John Wittenberg (1938 - 2005) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a front-row forward with the St. George Dragons. He was a representative in the Australian national team in 1966 and from 1968 to 1970 earning 6 test caps.

Wittenberg was from Wide Bay, Queensland and played for Toowoomba, the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls and in the Central Queensland town of Theodore in the early and mid sixties from which clubs he represented for Queensland and Australia. The Queensland Rugby League attempted to block his transfer to Sydney in 1967 forcing him to sit out the 1967 season and causing him to miss selection for the 1967 Kangaroo Tour.

He played 53 games for St George from 1968 to 1970 representing for New South Wales and regaining Australian representative selection during that time. Four of his representative caps were at the 1968 World Cup played in Sydney including the World Cup Final victory against France in June 1968.

He died of a heart attack while working on his rural property in Wauchope, New South Wales aged 67.

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