Herman Peters
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1899 North Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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10 September 1989 (age 89) Lane Cove, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Herman Peters (1899-1989) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s.[1] An international representative centre, he played his club football with North Sydney in the NSWRFL premiership and won two premierships with the club.[2]
Peters played eight games of the 1921 NSWRFL season in which the North Sydney team won the premiership without having to play a final. As part of Norths' champion backline, he gained selection on the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain,[3] along with clubmates, Blinkhorn, Rule, Horder, Ives and Thompson. He went on to play in the 1922 NSWRFL season's Premiership Final for Norths, scoring a try to help them claim consecutive premierships. In the 1923 NSWRFL season, Peters was the premiership season's top try-scorer. He scored 16 tries in 18 games. [4]
Peters coached North Sydney in the 1934 NSWRFL season. He later went on to be a National Selector for the ARL. He was known as "The Grand Old Man" of the North Sydney Bears club and was a staunch supporter right up to his death in 1989. [5]. Before his death in 1989, Peters was quoted as saying "Hoping for Norths to win another one has kept me going I've watched them all the years since 1922, and I want to be there on the day it happens". [6]
References
- ↑ Herman Peters at yesterdayshero.com.au
- ↑ Herman Peters at nrlstats.com
- ↑ Herman Peters at rugbyleagueproject.org
- ↑ Herman Peters at northsydneybears.com.au
- ↑ Alan Whiticker: Rugbyleagueproject.org
- ↑ https://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/files/assets/.../6.../15_the_mighty_bears.pdf