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Peter Jones

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Playing Career

All information provided below is based only on data available in the RLP database and should be used as a guide only.

Vital Statistics

Position(s)
Five-eighth
Full Name
Peter Anthony Jones
Born
Saturday, 15th August, 1942
Current Age
84 years and 17 days
Place Of Birth
Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia

Competitions Won

Interstate Series
1965
NSW City vs Country Firsts
1966
Preseason Cup
1967

Biography

Randwick RU centre made a sensational Australian Test debut against England as a 20-year-old in 1963 before touring South Africa with the Wallabies. Jones switched codes to play with Balmain in the mid 1960s but, after representing NSW in 1965, chose to sit out much of the 1969 season (along with Dennis Tutty and Laurie Moraschi) in protest of the NSWRL's transfer system. Jones missed the Tigers’ grand final win over Souths that year and although he returned briefly in 1970 his playing career had all but finished.
- ALAN WHITICKER

Playing Career Statistics

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Representative Career - International Comp WinsStartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
Tour MatchesBalmain TigersBAL-1-1----------1--100.00%List
Representative Career - Australia Comp WinsStartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
Interstate Series 11-11-1---3---1--100.00%List
NSW City vs Country Firsts 11-1----------1--100.00%List
NSW City vs Country 12-2----------11-50.00%List
Club Career - Australia Comp WinsStartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
NSWRFL (NRL Premiership) -7237510-10---30---4430158.67%List
NRL Finals -325----------23-40.00%List
Preseason Cup 110-10----------54150.00%List
Overall StartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
First Class 8638911-11---33---5235258.43%List

Australia - By Team

TeamYears StartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
NSW Firsts1965 2-21-1---3---2--100.00%List
NSW City Firsts1966 1-1----------1--100.00%List
NSW City Seconds1967 1-1-----------1-0.00%List

NSWRFL (NRL Premiership) - By Year

TeamSeason StartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
BalmainBalmain19641964 NSWRFL 538----------44-50.00%List
BalmainBalmain19651965 NSWRFL 11-112-2---6---74-63.64%List
BalmainBalmain19661966 NSWRFL 16-163-3---9---115-68.75%List
BalmainBalmain19671967 NSWRFL 19-194-4---12---108152.63%List
BalmainBalmain19681968 NSWRFL 16-161-1---3---97-56.25%List
BalmainBalmain19701970 NSWRFL 5-5----------32-60.00%List

NSWRFL (NRL Premiership) - By Team

TeamYears StartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
Balmain1964-68, 1970 7237510-10---30---4430158.67%List

Your Say

  • Anonymous
    27 Nov 2020 9:58pm

    Selected to play five eighth for NSW in 1965, Jones would have been an automatic selection for an Australian Rugby League team if there had been one selected that year and therefore become a dual international in Rugby Union and Rugby League. However, quite inexplicably, there was no international series played that year.

    The following year, 1966, Jones broke his thumb playing five eight for City Firsts, which put him out of contention for the state games and the international series against the touring Great Britain side again denying him a more than probable chance of achieving dual international honors. His team mate Arthur Beetson made his debut for Australia against Great Britain in the third test that year.

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