Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Benjamin Francis Wearing
- Born
- Tuesday, 11th June, 1901
- Died
- Tuesday, 9th April, 1968 (Aged 66 years and 302 days)
Awards & Accolades
Biography
The tragedy of great winger Benny Wearing's career was that while he was a record-maker at Souths, and the ‘people's champion’ in the Sydney premiership, he only made the one Test appearance. A great goal-kicker with a good short kicking game, Wearing played for NSW between 1924-28 and won seven premiership titles with Souths (1925-29 & 1931-32) but was constantly overlooked for Test duty. After the Australian Board of Control did not go ahead with the 1926-27 Kangaroo Tour Wearing was expected to be one of the first players selected in the Test series against England in 1928. He was not chosen for the first two Tests but he was just too good to leave out of the Third Test. Wearing scored the then individual points record (12pts - 2t, 3g) in Australia's only win of the series but was again omitted when the Kangaroos squad was selected the following year. He retired in 1933 with a club record 144 tries to his credit – a record that still stands.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Playing Career Statistics
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Competitions | ||||||||||||||
Competition | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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NRL | 172 | 144 | 202 | - | 836 | 133 | 37 | 2 | 77.33% | List | ||||
City Cup | 37 | 26 | 6 | - | 90 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 78.38% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | New South Wales Seconds | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
NRL Finals | 15 | 9 | 16 | - | 59 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 73.33% | List | ||||
Interstate Matches | 13 | 10 | 23 | - | 76 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.15% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | 9 | 6 | 14 | - | 46 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.33% | List | |||
Country Carnival | 4 | 3 | 6 | - | 21 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75.00% | List | ||||
City vs Country Firsts | 2 | 2 | 7 | - | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | Australia | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Test Series | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
The Ashes | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
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Test Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Australia | 1928 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
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Australia - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Australasia II | 1922 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
NSW Seconds | 1922 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
NSW Firsts | 1923-28, 1932 | 23 | 17 | 37 | - | 125 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 43.48% | List | |||
Metropolis | 1927 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
NSW City Firsts | 1928, 1930 | 2 | 2 | 7 | - | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
NSW City Seconds | 1929 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Combined City | 1929 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Overall | 1922-1932 | 30 | 24 | 48 | 0 | 168 | 14 | 16 | 0 | 46.67% | List | |||
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NRL/NSWRL - By Year | ||||||||||||||
Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1921 | 7 | 9 | - | - | 27 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57.14% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1922 | 15 | 11 | 9 | - | 51 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 60.00% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1923 | 15 | 15 | 3 | - | 51 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 80.00% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1924 | 6 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 83.33% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1925 | 11 | 12 | 22 | - | 80 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1926 | 16 | 14 | 10 | - | 62 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 87.50% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1927 | 17 | 19 | 9 | - | 75 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 88.24% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1928 | 14 | 8 | 35 | - | 94 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.43% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1929 | 18 | 9 | 17 | - | 61 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 83.33% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1930 | 13 | 12 | 14 | - | 64 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.23% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1931 | 17 | 13 | 34 | - | 107 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 70.59% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1932 | 12 | 11 | 32 | - | 97 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.33% | List | |||
Souths | NSWRFL 1933 | 11 | 5 | 17 | - | 49 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.64% | List | |||
NRL/NSWRL - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Souths | 1921-33 | 172 | 144 | 202 | - | 836 | 133 | 37 | 2 | 77.33% | List |
Contributions:
Andrew Ferguson, Shawn Dollin, Greg Fiveash, Rugby League Tables, Alan Katzmann, Max Turner, Paul Carter
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26/05/2018
a true legend rip benny
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