George Treweek
 Treweek in 1927 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Albert George Treweeke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 March 1905 Grahamstown, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 October 1991 (aged 86) Monterey, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (14 st 2 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Second-row | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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George Treweek (31 March 1905 – 28 October 1991) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 1930s. He was a towering second-row forward for his time who formed an integral part of the champion South Sydney Rabbitohs teams of the 1920s and early 1930s. He is rated as one of the finest second-row forwards ever to play for Australia.
Club career
Starting out as a fullback in the lower grades at the Mascot Juniors RLFC, Treweek was moved into the second-row upon reaching first grade and won five premierships with South Sydney, captaining the side in the 1931 and 1932 premiership victories. All up Treweek played 120 games for Souths between 1926 and 1934.
Representative career
He made 7 Test appearances for the Australian national representative side. His test debut was against the touring Great Britain team in 1928. He was selected to go on the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, playing in four tests and 22 games in all and scoring six tries. Curren is listed on the Australian Players Register as kangaroo No. 142.[1] Treweek also played eighteen games for NSW.
Accolades
In 2004 he was named by the Souths in their South Sydney Dream Team,[2] consisting of 17 players and a coach representing the club from 1908 through to 2004. In 2006 he was inducted into the ARL Hall of Fame.[3]
In February 2008, Treweek was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.[4][5]
In 2010, Treweek was named as Captain in the Mascot Juniors RLFC Team of the Century.
Surname and spelling
George Treweeke was born Albert George Treweek. The family name was always spelled without the final e. His brothers and parents all kept the original spelling but George changed it to Treweeke. He never had the heart to tell the press of the day that they had spelled his name wrong throughout his entire career. The proper spelling of his surname is actually Treweeke not Treweek though he graciously accepted Treweek throughout his life.
Footnotes
- ^ ARL Annual report 2005, page 52
- ^ South Sydney Dream Team from the official South Sydney website.
- ^ Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame
- ^ Peter Cassidy (23 February 2008). "Controversy reigns as NRL releases top 100 players". Macquarie National News. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
- ^ "Centenary of Rugby League – The Players". NRL & ARL. 23 February 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
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Sources
- Andrews, Malcolm. The ABC of Rugby League. Australia: ABC Books, 2006.