A very good attendance yesterday to pay tribute to Bobby Degan. Bob’s son David welcomed relatives and friends and we were able to view many photos and programs of Bob’s playing days with Chelsea – South Sydney and Wyong. Col Downing – Digger Livingstone and myself were very pleased to catch up with old mates […]
How a phone call changes a Chelsea Players life for the better………. Always one for getting results Ken Vessey decided to work through the telephone directory endeavouring to find former Chelsea players to invite to the reunion/fundraiser. He struck gold. Looking for Ray Burns and following a tip off that Ray resided in Arncliffe; the […]
Back on our April 2015 Old Mates Day after I had been suggesting to Chris Devine for ages, we brought along a double sided framed set of the Scanlens Rugby League Cards issued post the 1969 season. Chris collected these cards as a kid all those years ago and after having them framed they take […]
The article below appeared in Brisbane’s Courier Mail about our old mate Ivan recently….. Alan Webb
For the record Leo went out on a winning note when North Sydney beat Balmain 15-13 in the last round of 1971. Thanks to Tony Lewis for the newspaper article…. Scott
Whilst at Ettalong last Saturday, an unusual meeting of yesteryear was spoken about by one of our more recent old mates, Richie Powell. Richie spoke of the time the former undisputed and undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion, none other than the great Rocky Marciano, came along to one of South Sydney’s first grade training sessions […]
Historically Paddo Tech has a close affinity with Chelsea Rugby League, due to the number of students who attended Paddo Tech who went on to play for our great club. The material for this article was made available by the Rugby League Museum historian Terry Williams. See whose name you can spot… The ten pages […]
One of the most talked about items on the website was initially placed on the website in January, and when the opportunity came for a reuniting of the old warhorses from exactly 50 years ago at the 50th anniversary celebration of the 1963 Wests v Saints grand final at the rugby league museum, I […]
In the early years of the 20th Century many junior teams had nicknames which would seem incongruous one hundred years later. Whilst many clubs today adopt the monikers of NRL teams many of the early rugby league clubs used nationalistic symbols to represent their clubs (eg Millers Point Kia Ora). Apart from South Sydney Federals, […]
Leslie Skelsey A TOUCH OF SOUTH SYDNEY RUGBY LEAGUE HISTORY LESLIE SKELSEY CAPTAIN OF SOUTH SYDNEY FEDERALS 2nd GRADE PREMIERS 1912 & 1913 (INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY LESLIE’S SON, KEVIN SKELSEY) WRITTEN BY KEN VESSEY Leslie SKELSEY was born in 1889 and lived in Walker Street, Redfern which is a stone’s throw away from the […]