Peter Diversi
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Full name | Peter Diversi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1932 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Lock forward, Second row | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Whiticker/Hudson |
Peter Diversi was an Australian rugby league player for the North Sydney Bears and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles,[1] New South Wales and for the Australian national side.
Career
A lock forward, he played two Tests for Australia in 1954-55 and fourteen matches for New South Wales 1952-56. A feared defender and tireless worker Diversi played 63 games for the Bears before moving to play for Gundagai and later Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles between 1958 and 1962.
Peter Diversi retired from Sydney football and finished his career at Kurri Kurri, in the Newcastle competition.
Diversi married the sister of fellow North Sydney Bears player, Kevin Price. Kevin's son Ray Price followed in his Uncle's footsteps, becoming one of the great locks in the history of the game during the 1970s and 80's.
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