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 […]