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| Full name | Johannes Albertus Prinsloo | |||||
| Born | 18 May 1935 or 28 January 1935 Pretoria, South Africa |
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| Died | 27 July 1966 or 28 July 1966 Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Rugby union | ||||||
| Position | Wing | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| –14/10/1958 | Western Province RU | |||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 26/07/1958–16/08/1958 | South Africa | |||||
| Rugby league | ||||||
| Position | Wing | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 14/10/1958–07/01/1961 | St. Helens | 89 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 210 |
| 07/01/1961–≥01/1961 | Wakefield Trinity | |||||
| Total | 89 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 210 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≥14/10/1958–≥01/1961 | Rugby League XIII | |||||
Johannes "Jan" Albertus Prinsloo was a South African rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s and '60s who at representative level played rugby union (RU) for South Africa, and at provincial level for Western Province, playing at Wing, i.e. number 11 or 14, and at representative level played rugby league (RL) for Rugby League XIII, and at club level for St. Helens, and Wakefield Trinity, playing at Wing, i.e. number 2 or 5.
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Jan Prinsloo won caps for South Africa (RU) while at Western Province in 1958 against France (2 matches), and represented Rugby League XIII (RL) while at ?.[1]
Jan Prinsloo scored his first try for St. Helens as part of a two-try début against Rochdale Hornets on the 8th of November, 1958. In the 1958/59 season Jan Prinsloo scored hat-tricks against Salford and Blackpool Borough for a season total of 27-tries from 31 games. Jan Prinsloo played a vital part in finishing dazzling moves for many a St. Helens victory including the sensational 1959 Championship Final win by 44 points to 22 over a great Hunslet side where Jan Prinsloo exhibited a fabulous touchline dash rounded off with his trademark 'swallow dive' over the tryline. In the 1959/60 season Jan scored 4-tries against Liverpool City and a hat-trick of tries against Hull, finishing the season with 29-tries from 38 matches. The following year brought more success with a hat-trick of tries against Workington Town. In 1960 Jan Prinsloo also won a Lancashire Cup winners medal when the St. Helens defeated Swinton by 15 points to 9 in front of a crowd of over 31,000 at Central Park. His final match for St. Helens was against Warrington on the 7th of January, 1961. The transferring of both Jan Prinsloo to Wakefield Trinity and Frank Carlton to Wigan paved the way for a £11,000 World Record transfer to bring Mick Sullivan to Knowsley Road. Jan Prinsloo had the daunting task of wearing the St. Helens number five jersey at the same time as Tom van Vollenhoven was setting the whole game on fire on the other wing. His record and strike-rate demonstrates what a fine finisher Jan Prinsloo was in rugby league.