American All Stars Tour 1953 Series

Game

New South Wales Firsts 62 def. United States of America 41

Match URL
www.rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/30642
Date
Tuesday, 2nd June, 1953
Status
Completed
Kick Off
2:30 PM (local time)
Referee
Jack O'Brien
Venue
Sydney Cricket Ground (Sydney)
Crowd
32,554

New South Wales Firsts 		62 – 41
United States of America

Match Stats

Halftime Score 31 – 20

Match Scoresheet

Tommy RYAN 6 T 3 Alvin E KIRKLAND
Ken KEARNEY 2   2 Alfred D KIRKLAND
Noel PIDDING 2   Jack BONETTI
Keith HOLMAN   Robert BUCKLEY
Don SCHOFIELD   Ed DEMIRJIAN
Ken SLATTERY   Harold HAN
Harry WELLS      
 
Noel PIDDING 10 G 7 Gary KERKORIAN

Teams

Clive CHURCHILL (c)
[Souths]
 1 FB 1 Sol NAUMU
Noel PIDDING
[St George]
 2 W 2 Robert BUCKLEY
Robert BARTLETT 3 C 3 Alvin E KIRKLAND
Harry WELLS 4 C 4 Harold HAN
Tommy RYAN
[St George]
 5 W 5 Ed DEMIRJIAN
 
Rees DUNCAN 6 FE 6 Gary KERKORIAN
Keith HOLMAN
[Western Suburbs]
 7 HB 7 Ted GROSSMAN
 
Charlie GILL 8 FR 8 Francis MANDULAY
Ken KEARNEY
[St George]
 9 HK 9 Pat HENRY
Roy BULL
[Manly]
 10 FR 10 Vince JONES
Albert PAUL 11 2R 11 Mike DIMITRO
Don SCHOFIELD 12 2R 12 Alfred D KIRKLAND
Ken SLATTERY
[Parramatta]
 13 L 13 Jack BONETTI (c)
 

Match Notes

During 2nd half NSW players often stood by and let the Americans score. Also, hooker Ken Kearney would kick the ball to the American side of the scrum.

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Contributions: Greg Fiveash, Andrew Ferguson