Les Cubitt

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**Les Cubitt**
Personal information
Australian national rugby league player
Full name	Les Cubitt
Date of birth	1893
Date of death	1968
Nickname(s)	Boxhead
Relatives	Charles (brother)
Club information
Position(s)	Centre/Five-eighth
Current club	Deceased
Senior clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
1911 1913-22	Glebe Dirty Reds Eastern Suburbs	16 (13) 89 (155)
Representative teams
1911-19 1919-22	New South Wales Australia	10 (36) 4 (15)
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

Les Cubitt (1893 – 1968) was an Australian representative rugby league player, a Centre or Five-eighth whose club career was with Eastern Suburbs and the Glebe Dirty Reds.

1 Club career
2 Representative career
3 Accolades
4 Sources
5 References

[edit] Club career

Cubitt commenced his club career at just eighteen years of age with Glebe playing alongside his brother Charlie in the 1911 Grand Final loss to Eastern Suburbs. In 1913 Les Cubitt joined the Roosters where he played for the next nine seasons winning a premiership in 1913.

[edit] Representative career

He was first selected for New South Wales in 1911 but had to wait until the end of the First World War to make his national representative debut. He played in the centres in all four Tests of Australia's first tour of New Zealand in 1919 scoring four tries in the tests and 17 tries in the last three tour matches.

He was selected as captain of the 1921-22 "Australasian" Kangaroos which had two New Zealanders in the squad. He concealed a serious knee injury which he aggravated on the tour in England and which led to his eventual retirement in 1922.

[edit] Accolades

In February 2008, Cubitt 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]