Ian Moir

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Playing Career

Vital Statistics

Born
Sunday, 17th July, 1932
Died
Wednesday, 19th September, 1990 (Aged 58 years and 63 days)
Place Of Birth
Nelson Bay, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Dazzling speedster was rated the fastest man in rugby league during the 1950s. A beach sprint champion, Moir won a professional sprint race worth £500 (the Canberra Gift) early in his career. In 1958 the former Wollongong winger won the NSWRL 110 yards Championship, running 11.1s in full football gear (the race was held at the SCG prior to the Third Test against Great Britain, in which Moir played, with Ken Irvine finishing second). Joining Souths in 1952, Moir played his first match for NSW but was unavailable because of injury when the Kangaroos left for England. In 1953 he was the season's leading try-scorer with 20 tries and, in a devastating display of pace and power, scored three tries in the 1953 final win over St George - the start of three straight premierships for the Rabbitohs. Moir broke into Australia’s World Cup squad in 1954 and finally made his Test debut against NZ in 1956 before touring with the 1956-57 Kangaroos. His career was to yield another World Cup campaign (1957) and a total of 8 Test appearances (the highlight being a three-try effort against NZ in 1959). Moir, who scored a club record-equalling 5 tries for Souths in a match against P’matta in 1957, saw out the final two seasons in Sydney with the big-spending Wests club. He proved that he was not a spent force at international level with Test appearances against Great Britain in 1958 and NZ in 1959. Thirty years later, Moir showed that he had lost none of his old magic when he won the NSW Veterans (50-54yrs) 100m Championship (running 12.7s!) in 1988.
- 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 %  
NRL 138 119 -   - 357 85 49 4 61.59% List
Country Carnival 6 8 -   - 24 5 1 0 83.33% List
Interstate Matches 10 10 -   - 30 9 1 0 90.00% List
City vs Country Firsts 4 7 -   - 21 3 1 0 75.00% List
NRL Finals 13 14 -   - 42 9 4 0 69.23% List
World Cup 4 3 -   - 9 3 1 0 75.00% List
Tour Matches Australia 22 17 -   - 51 13 8 1 59.09% List
Test Series 8 6 -   - 15 5 3 0 62.50% List
The Ashes 3 1 -   - 6 1 2 0 33.33% List
Tour Matches New South Wales Firsts 1 3 -   - 9 0 1 0 0.00% List
City Cup 1 - -   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List


International

Test Matches - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Australia 1954, 1956-59 12 9 -   - 27 8 4 0 66.67% List

International Matches - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Australia 1954, 1957 3 2 -   - 6 3 0 0 100.00% List

World Cup Matches - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Australia 1954, 1957 4 3 -   - 9 3 1 0 75.00% List


Representative

Australia - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Sydney Firsts 1952-53 2 2 -   - 6 2 0 0 100.00% List
NSW City Seconds 1952, 1954-55, 1960 4 5 -   - 15 3 1 0 75.00% List
NSW Firsts 1952, 1955-57, 1959 11 13 -   - 39 9 2 0 81.82% List
NSW City Firsts 1953, 1956-57, 1959 4 7 -   - 21 3 1 0 75.00% List
Possibles (AU) 1954 1 3 -   - 9 0 1 0 0.00% List
Probables (AU) 1956 1 - -   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List
Overall1952-1960 23 30 0   0 90 17 6 0 73.91% List


Club Career

NRL/NSWRL - By Year

Team Season App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Souths NSWRFL 1952 7 3 -   - 9 4 3 0 57.14% List
Souths NSWRFL 1953 19 23 -   - 69 12 6 1 63.16% List
Souths NSWRFL 1954 19 21 -   - 63 15 3 1 78.95% List
Souths NSWRFL 1955 19 18 -   - 54 14 5 0 73.68% List
Souths NSWRFL 1956 16 15 -   - 45 11 4 1 68.75% List
Souths NSWRFL 1957 17 17 -   - 51 9 8 0 52.94% List
Souths NSWRFL 1958 13 8 -   - 24 5 8 0 38.46% List
Western Suburbs NSWRFL 1959 14 13 -   - 39 7 6 1 50.00% List
Western Suburbs NSWRFL 1960 14 1 -   - 3 8 6 0 57.14% List

NRL/NSWRL - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Souths 1952-58 110 105 -   - 315 70 37 3 63.64% List
Western Suburbs 1959-60 28 14 -   - 42 15 12 1 53.57% List
Overall1952-1960 138 119 0   0 357 85 49 4 61.59% List

Your Say

  • Anonymous
    12/04/2019

    the John Dynan sprint was held at half time of the 3rd test, with Moir already having played one half before the race.
    Dale Puren actually came second with Irvine third

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