| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | Norman John Hawke | |||||
| Born | 1925 Queanbeyan, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
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| Died | 1992 (age 66) | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Centre, Five-eighth | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1946 | Queanbeyan | |||||
| 1947 | Canberra | |||||
| 1949–52 | St. George | 56 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 30 |
| Total | ||||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| Country NSW | ||||||
| 1949–51 | New South Wales | |||||
| 1948–49 | Australia | 4 | ||||
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1951–1952 | St George Dragons | 36 | 23 | 1 | 12 | 64 |
| Kyogle | ||||||
| Woy Woy | ||||||
| Total | 36 | 23 | 1 | 12 | 64 | |
Johnny Hawke (1925 - 1992) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative back,[1] he played club football in the ACT as well as in Sydney for St. George,[2] whom he captained and won a premiership with in 1949.
Hawke was still playing with Canberra when he was first selected for New South Wales in 1948. At the end of that year he went on the 1948-49 Kangaroo tour, making four Test appearances against Great Britain and France. Upon the tour's return he signed with the St. George Dragons for the 1949 NSWRFL season, in which he would lead the Saints to premiership victory. He featured in the 19-12 Grand final win over South Sydney. Mid-season 1949 he had made Kangaroo tour to New Zealand and another Test appearance.[3]
In 1950 he was in the running for the Ashes series captaincy but was injured in the New South Wales tour match against the visiting Englishmen and made no further rep appearances that year.[4] He made a career total of six state representative appearances for New South Wales and captained the side.
He captained-coached St.George in the premiership seasons of 1951 and 1952, and in 1951 made his final test appearance against France. At the end of the 1952 season he left St Geogre to take a captain-coach role at Kyogle and he later coached at Woy Woy.
Hawke died of Parkinson's disease aged 66.
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