Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Owen George Stephens
- Nickname(s)
- Noddy
- Born
- Thursday, 9th January, 1947
- Current Age
- 77 years and 102 days
- Place Of Birth
- Paeroa, Waikato, New Zealand
Biography
Son of Mortimer Stephens who played for St Helens and Bradford Northern in the 1930s, Owen Stephens came to Australia from Wellington in 1970. A former All Black, the huge, hard-running centre trialled with the St George Rugby League club but after failing to gain a contract, had to wait 12 months to be reinstated into the amateur ranks. Stephens played RU for St George in 1971 before representing the Wallabies in 5 RU Tests against Wales, Tonga and NZ (thus becoming one of only three former All Blacks to play against NZ). He joined P’matta in 1975, scoring a then club record-equalling four tries in a game against Souths, before joining Wakefield Trinity in England.
- ALAN WHITICKER
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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| Craven Mild Cup | 5 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| National Panasonic Cup | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NRL | 17 | 7 | - | - | 21 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 52.94% | List | ||||
| NRL Finals | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
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NRL/NSWRL - By Year | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| Parramatta | NSWRFL 1975 | 13 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.85% | List | |||
| Parramatta | NSWRFL 1976 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33% | List | |||
| Parramatta | NSWRFL 1977 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
NRL/NSWRL - By Team | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| Parramatta | 1975-77 | 17 | 7 | - | - | 21 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 52.94% | List | |||
Contributions:
Paul Carter, Andrew Ferguson, Rugby League Tables, Greg Fiveash, Shawn Dollin, AJ Lucantonio
Your Say
27/04/2012
Saints missed out on a damn good player here !!
30/03/2015
He was my favourite Parramatta winger and played exceptionally well during the 1975 playoffs for 5th place in the semi finals and the subsequent semi final against Canterbury. Very fast and could step off both feet. Still have some game highlights.
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