Rod Morris

Infobox rugby league biography
playername = Rod Morris
fullname = Rod Morris

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placeofbirth = Ipswich, Queensland
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club1 = Balmain Tigers
year1start = 1979
year1end = 1981
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year2start = 1982
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yearAstart = 1976
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yearBstart = 1979
yearBend = 1981
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teamC = Queensland Maroons
yearCstart = 1980
yearCend = 1982
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yearDstart = 1977
yearDend = 1982
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Rod Morris is an Australian former rugby league player, a state and national representative front row forward who made two Kangaroo tours.

Playing career

Morris was a Brisbane Easts player who first represented for Queensland in 1976 and then Australia in 1977. He signed with the Balmain Tigers in 1979 and was brought to Sydney, thus becoming eligible to play for New South Wales under the selection criterion of the time. In the 1979 interstate series he played against his Queensland resident brother Des Morris. He then played for Queensland in 1980 in the first ever Rugby League State of Origin under the new origin selection criterion.

He was a 1978 Kangaroo tourist playing in two Tests and ten minor tour matches. He played in all three Tests of the 1979 domestic Ashes series which Australia won 3-0.

Morris made a return to Brisbane club football in 1982 and captained Wynnum-Manly at the age of 32 to a Brisbane Rugby League premiership title which was Wynnum-Manly's first ever. He put in a man-of-the-match performance in the 2nd game of the 1982 State of Origin series before making his last representative appearances in that year's Kangaroo Tour, playing in four tour matches and contributing to the Invincibles' unbeaten tour record.

He is one of a number of players to have represented both Queensland and New South Wales and one of those rare foundation Origin representatives whose NSW appearances were bookended by selections for Queensland.

External links

*StateofOrigin player|366

ources

* Andrews, Malcolm (2006) "The ABC of Rugby League" Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney