Kerry Boustead
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Kerry Boustead | |
| Date of birth | 1959 | |
| Place of birth | Innisfail, Queensland, Australia | |
| Nickname(s) | Bowie | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| Years | Club | |
| 1977 | Innisfail | |
| Youth representative teams | ||
| 1976 |  Queensland Schoolboys |
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| Senior clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (points) |
| 1978 1979-82 1983-86 1985-1987 1988-1990 |
 Innisfail Souths Sydney Roosters Manly Sea Eagles Hull Kingston Rovers North Sydney Bears |
83 (93) 65 (120) 33 (32) |
| Representative teams | ||
| 1978 1979-1981 1980-1984 1978-1984 |
Queensland (Residential) New South Wales (Residential) Queensland (Origin) Australian Kangaroos |
3 (9) 6 (9) 6 (19) 25 (46) |
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* Professional club appearances and points |
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Kerry Boustead is an Australian former rugby league player. A talented representative winger for Queensland and Australia, at the time he was picked for the Australian national rugby league team he was the youngest ever player so selected.
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[edit] Club career
An Innisfail junior he was a Queensland Schoolboy representative and made his first grade debut with Innisfail Souths in 1977.
In 1979 the Queensland Rugby League tried to block his move to Sydney although Eastern Suburbs ultimately gained his services. Boustead broke his ankle in his first season in Sydney but recovered to play in the centres in the club's loss to Canterbury in the NSWRL 1980 Grand Final. He stayed with the Roosters till the end of 1982 and then in 1983 followed his club and national coach Bob Fulton to Manly for four season.
In the Australian off-seasons he played in the UK for for Hull Kingston Rovers in 1985-86 and 1986-87 but leg, collarbone and shoulder injuries seriously disrupted the momentum of his career in the this period. In 1986 while still at Manly he played in only seven matches of the 25 round regular season. In 1988 Boustead resumed his career with the North Sydney Bears making thirty-three appearances in his last three seasons before retiring at the end of 1990.
[edit] Representative career
Boustead first represented for Queensland aged 18 in 1978 while playing for Innisfail Souths. Small in stature Boustead outshone his giant New South Wales outside back rivals in Terry Fahey and Mark Harris. After playing for New South Wales in 1979 under residential selection criteria, Boustead represented Queensland in the first ever State of Origin match, and is one of a handful of players to have scored 3 tries in an Origin game.
He is one of a number of players to have represented both Queensland and New South Wales and one of those rare foundation Origin representatives whose NSW appearances were bookended by selections for Queensland.
Boustead made his international representative debut at 18 years and 310 days in 1978 in a Test against New Zealand thus becoming the youngest ever player to represent Australia. He played in all three Tests of that series.
He was a consistent Australian representative from 1978 to 1984 often appearing in all Tests of a tour, in domestic Ashes series and in series against New Zealand and France. He toured with the 1978 Kangaroos and with Frank Stanton's 1982 'Invincibles'. All up he made twenty-five Test appearances for Australia and played in eighteen minor matches on two Kangaroo tours.
[edit] Accolades & post-playing
In 2000 he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in the sport of rugby league.
Boustead returned to the game as the Chief Executive of the newly promoted North Queensland Cowboys in 1995 but resigned after five competition matches when the club aligned itself with Super League. He served on the NRL Judiciary Tribunal from 1997-98 and in 2000.
In February 2008, Boustead 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. [1] Surprisingly Boustead was usurped in the Queensland Team of the Century announced on the night of game II of SoO 2008 by two wingers who were not named in the Australian 100 Greatest - Cec Aynsley and Denis Flannery.
[edit] References
[edit] Sources
- Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
- Big League's 25 Years of Origin Collectors' Edition , News Magazines, Surry Hills, Sydney
- Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney
[edit] External links
- Kerry Boustead at the State of Origin official website.
- Kerry Boustead at the Former Origin Greats website.
- Kerry Boustead at Foley Shield fan site
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