Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Born
- Monday, 30th August, 1920
- Died
- 1974
Biography
Dashing winger, a professional beach sprint champion with 12 Australian sprint titles to his credit, scored a club record-equalling five tries for Norths in a match against Easts in 1944. Bliss made his debut for NSW while playing for Manly in their inaugural season (1947). He went on to make one Test appearance, against France in 1951, but missed the club's maiden grand final appearance that year because of injury. He remained closely associated with the Manly club right up to his death in 1974.
- 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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NRL | 126 | 80 | - | - | 240 | 50 | 74 | 2 | 39.68% | List | ||||
City Cup | 1 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
NRL Finals | 2 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
City vs Country Firsts | 3 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
Interstate Matches | 6 | 9 | - | - | 27 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 50.00% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | Sydney Firsts | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00% | List | |||
Tour Matches | Australia | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
Test Series | 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 | 1951 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
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Australia - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Metropolis Seconds | 1944 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
NSW City Seconds | 1944, 1946, 1948-49 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Sydney Firsts | 1945, 1951 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0.00% | List | |||
Probables (AU) | 1946, 1950 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | |||
NSW City Firsts | 1946-48, 1951 | 4 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
NSW Firsts | 1947, 1951 | 8 | 10 | - | - | 30 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 62.50% | List | |||
Possibles (AU) | 1948 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Overall | 1944-1951 | 23 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 69.57% | List | |||
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NRL/NSWRL - By Year | ||||||||||||||
Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Balmain | NSWRFL 1942 | 11 | 11 | - | - | 33 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.55% | List | |||
Balmain | NSWRFL 1943 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75.00% | List | |||
North Sydney | NSWRFL 1944 | 8 | 7 | - | - | 21 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 50.00% | List | |||
North Sydney | NSWRFL 1945 | 15 | 9 | - | - | 27 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 53.33% | List | |||
North Sydney | NSWRFL 1946 | 12 | 11 | - | - | 33 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.33% | List | |||
Manly | NSWRFL 1947 | 14 | 10 | - | - | 30 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 28.57% | List | |||
Manly | NSWRFL 1948 | 15 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 20.00% | List | |||
Manly | NSWRFL 1949 | 10 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.00% | List | |||
Manly | NSWRFL 1950 | 18 | 10 | - | - | 30 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 33.33% | List | |||
Manly | NSWRFL 1951 | 14 | 12 | - | - | 36 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 57.14% | List | |||
Manly | NSWRFL 1952 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Manly | NSWRFL 1953 | 4 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 25.00% | List | |||
NRL/NSWRL - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Balmain | 1942-43 | 15 | 12 | - | - | 36 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 60.00% | List | |||
North Sydney | 1944-46 | 35 | 27 | - | - | 81 | 16 | 18 | 1 | 45.71% | List | |||
Manly | 1947-53 | 76 | 41 | - | - | 123 | 25 | 50 | 1 | 32.89% | List | |||
Overall | 1942-1953 | 126 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 50 | 74 | 2 | 39.68% | List |
Contributions:
Gary Neale, Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Greg Fiveash, Rugby League Tables, Alan Katzmann, Paul Carter, AJ Lucantonio, Tim Costello
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