Steve Bowden
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| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Steve Bowden | |
| Club information | ||
| Position(s) | Front row | |
| Current club | Retired | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| Years | Club | |
| Bankstown | ||
| Senior clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (points) |
| 1978–1982 | Newtown Jets | 80 (45) |
| Representative teams | ||
| 1981 | New South Wales | 1 (0) |
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* Professional club appearances and points |
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Steve Bowden is a former professional rugby league player for the Newtown Jets in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition. Bowden primarily played in the front row.
Bowden was selected in 1981 to represent New South Wales as a front-rower for the only State of Origin-designated game of the year.[1] In that match, Bowden was sin-binned along with Queenslander Rod Morris after an all-in brawl.
Another fight cost Bowden a spot in the 1981 Grand Final. In the first few minutes of the major semi-final against Manly-Warringah, Bowden was involved in a fight with Kiwi Mark Broadhurst. A scrum devolved into an all-in brawl with Bowden head-butting and punching Broadhurst. Bowden was sent from the field to sit out the remainder of the match and was subsequently suspended and unable to take part in the pre-liminary final against Easts or the Grand Final against Parramatta.[2]
Bowden now owns and operates the Hurstville Ritz Hotel in Sydney.[3]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ State Of Origin - Game 1, 1981. Rugby League Tables. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.
- ^ "Grand Final top five: Suspensions", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2004-09-28. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.
- ^ "Newtown draw inspiration from past greats for Sunday's Grand Final", Newtown Jets, 2006-09-28. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.
[edit] External links
- Steve Bowden at the State of Origin official website.
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