Mortimer family
The Mortimer brothers are a rugby league football family.
First generation
[edit]Hailing from Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia: Chris Mortimer, Peter Mortimer and Steve Mortimer. The brothers are best known for their relationship with the Canterbury-Bankstown Rugby League Football Club in the New South Wales Rugby League competition from the mid-1970s to the current day as players and administrators.
The three brothers played together in four grand finals for Canterbury and all represented New South Wales; Chris and Steve going on to represent Australia. All three Mortimer brothers are life members of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Football Club. Chris and Steve are inductees into the Riverina Sporting Hall of Fame.[1]
1979 Grand Final, all three brothers scored in a historic performance for the Mortimers.
A younger brother, Glen Mortimer played 27 first grade games for Cronulla between 1983 and 1987 after starting out in the Bulldogs lower grades.
Second generation
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Peter had five sons who all play rugby league. Daniel plays for the Gold Coast Titans and Robbie was contracted to the Balmain tigers and the Parramatta Eels in 2010/2011 before moving to Brisbane to play Queensland Cup for the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Intrust Super Cup. Daniel won an NRL Grand Final in 2013 and also a World Club Challenge in 2014.
References
[edit]- ^ "Sporting Hall of Fame: Inductees". City of Wagga Wagga. Archived from the original on 31 August 2007. Retrieved 22 June 2008.
External links
[edit]- Steve Mortimer at RLP
- Peter Mortimer at RLP
- Chris Mortimer at RLP
- Glen Mortimer at RLP
- Daniel Mortimer at RLP
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