Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Gregoria Richard Veserema
- Born
- Friday, 19th February, 1897
- Died
- Tuesday, 11th June, 1974 (Aged 77 years and 111 days)
Biography
The son of an Austrian immigrant, born Richard Veserema in Barmedman NSW, was sent to Westmead Boys home with his two elder brothers upon the death of his father in a mine accident. ‘Dick Vest’ thus became a P’matta junior and made his first grade debut for parent club, Western Suburbs, as a teenage winger in 1914. Vest represented NSW in 1919 and made his Test debut on the tour of NZ that year, scoring two tries in Australia's Fourth Test victory. Vest played in three Tests in Australia's Ashes victory over England in 1920 and toured with the ‘Australasian’ Kangaroos the following year. On tour he played in all three Tests against England and in 23 other matches. Vest was offered a £1200 contract to stay in England and play with Leeds but according to author Gary Lester (Clouds of Dust, Buckets of Blood, 1996) Vest’s mother wouldn’t allow him to stay in England. Vest also made two tours of NZ with a NSW rep side (1920 & 1922) but later returned to the Riverina area and captain-coached Barmedman in the Maher Cup. He was later a club selector and lower grade coach at Wests during the 1930s.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Additional Notes
Son of an Austrian immigrant, was sent to a Westmead boys home with his 2 brothers after his father died in a mine accident.
Playing Career Statistics
All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.
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Competitions | ||||||||||||||
Competition | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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NRL | 85 | 22 | 8 | - | 82 | 35 | 48 | 2 | 41.18% | List | ||||
City Cup | 17 | 3 | 3 | - | 15 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 52.94% | List | ||||
Interstate Matches | 3 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | Australia | 34 | 20 | - | - | 60 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 79.41% | List | |||
Test Series | 7 | 4 | - | - | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57.14% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | 4 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
The Ashes | 6 | 2 | - | - | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | Metropolis | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Tour Matches | Cootamundra | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
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Test Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Australia | 1919-22 | 8 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.50% | List | |||
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Australia - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
NSW Firsts | 1919-22 | 9 | 10 | - | - | 30 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Metropolis | 1920, 1922 | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Cootamundra | 1924 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
Overall | 1919-1924 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.67% | List | |||
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NRL/NSWRL - By Year | ||||||||||||||
Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1914 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1915 | 9 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 8 | 0 | 11.11% | List | |||
Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1916 | 10 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10.00% | List | |||
Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1917 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 45.45% | List | |||
Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1918 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.62% | List | |||
Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1919 | 11 | 7 | - | - | 21 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.55% | List | |||
Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1920 | 11 | 8 | 1 | - | 26 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 54.55% | List | |||
Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1921 | 8 | 1 | 7 | - | 17 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 25.00% | List | |||
Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1922 | 10 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.00% | List | |||
Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1923 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
NRL/NSWRL - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Western Suburbs | 1914-23 | 85 | 22 | 8 | - | 82 | 35 | 48 | 2 | 41.18% | List |
Contributions:
Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Rugby League Tables, Greg Fiveash, Alan Katzmann, Bill Bates
Your Say
05/02/2011
A great player who should have been born 70 years later to receive the recognition for the player that he was. He is sadly missed.
06/07/2011
my third cousin. proud to acknowledge his great football career.
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