- 1953 NSWRFL season
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1953 NSWRFL season Teams 10 Premiers South Sydney (14th title) Minor premiers South Sydney (13th title) Matches played 93 Points scored 3241 (total)
34.849 (per match)Top try scorer(s) Ian Moir (23) 1953's New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the forty-sixth season of the rugby league competition based in Sydney. Ten teams from across the competed for the J. J. Giltinan Shield during the season, which culminated in a final between South Sydney and St. George.
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Teams
Balmain Canterbury-Bankstown Eastern Suburbs Manly-Warringah Newtown North Sydney Parramatta South Sydney St. George Western Suburbs Ladder
Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts 1 South Sydney 18 11 1 6 384 278 +106 23 2 St. George 18 11 0 7 313 289 +24 22 3 North Sydney 18 10 1 7 421 283 +138 21 4 Eastern Suburbs 18 10 1 7 330 310 +20 21 5 Newtown 18 9 2 7 292 268 +24 20 6 Canterbury 18 9 2 7 252 291 -39 20 7 Parramatta 18 8 1 9 271 291 -20 17 8 Balmain 18 7 0 11 313 377 -64 14 9 Manly 18 6 0 12 294 393 -99 12 10 Western Suburbs 18 5 0 13 287 377 -90 10 Finals
Home Score Away Match Information Date and Time Venue Referee Crowd Semi Finals South Sydney 5-4 North Sydney 29 August 1953 Sydney Cricket Ground Jack O'Brien 30,392 St. George 25-7 Eastern Suburbs 5 September 1953 Sydney Cricket Ground Darcy Lawler 37,753 Final South Sydney 31-12 St. George 12 September 1953 Sydney Cricket Ground Darcy Lawler 44,581 Final
South Sydney Position St George Clive Churchill FB Noel Pidding Ian Moir WG Kevin Hole Martin Gallagher CE Tommy Ryan Kevin Woolfe CE Merv Lees Fred Threlfo WG Ross Kite John Dougherty FE Alec Staunton Ray Mason HB Peter Bracken Denis Donoghue PR Kevin Brown Ernie Hammerton HK Ken Kearney (c) Jim Richards PR Bob Bower Bob Moon SR Norm Provan Jack Rayner (Ca./Co.) SR Barry Passfield Les Cowie LK Billy Wilson Coach Norm Tipping To win the 1953 premiership St George would need to beat minor premiers Souths in both a final and a Grand final, emulating the feats of the Dragons of 1949 from which team only Noel Pidding was still playing. A crowd of 44,581 were at the Sydney Cricket Ground to see the first phase of this attempt.
Souths opened the scoring with a penalty goal in the ninth minute kicked by Clive Churchill from 40 yards. The Dragons threatened Souths' line continuously in the next stanza but bombed three tries and then lost some momentum in the 14 minutes before half-time during the absence of centre Merv Lees while he was off the field having stitches to his lip after driving a tooth through it. Souths scored 13 points in this period. Ian Moir capitalised on a spillage of the ball by Pidding behind his own line after a heavy tackle, Churchill then featured when he firstly sent Threlfo in and then set up Moir for his second try. The score at half time was 15-0.
Early in the second half Pidding kicked a penalty and a few minutes later Wilson & Gallagher were sent off for fighting. With Wilson gone Rabbitoh hard-men Rayner and Donoghue then took control and four Souths tries flowed to Woolfe, Dougherty, Hammerton and Moir's third. Two late Dragons' tries to Brown and Lees made no difference and South Sydney powered to their 14th premiership.
South Sydney Rabbitohs 31
Tries: Moir (3), Woolfe, Threlfo, Dougherty, Hammerton
Goals: Dougherty (4), Churchill (1)St George Dragons 12
Tries: Lees, Brown
Goals: Pidding (3)References
- Rugby League Tables - Season 1953 The World of Rugby League
- Haddan, Steve [2007] The Finals - 100 Years of National Rugby League Finals, Steve Haddan Publishing, Brisbane
- Results: 1951-60 at rabbitohs.com.au
- 1953 J J Giltinan Shield at rleague.com
- NSWRFL season 1953 at rugbyleagueproject.com
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