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| Full name | Kenneth Richard Arthurson | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 October 1929 Glebe, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Halfback | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Kenneth Richard "Arko" Arthurson AM (born 1 October 1929) is an Australian rugby league football identity. Affectionately known as "The Godfather of Manly",[4] he played, coached and was later an administrator at the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. Later he ran the NSWRL, and then the Australian Rugby League during the 1990s' Super League war, resigning in 1997 as part of the peace process for creating the unified National Rugby League.
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- ^ "Rugby League Project Coaches". rugbyleagueproject.org. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ^ Riccio, David (15 February 2009). "Arko offers to broker ceasefire". The Sunday Telegraph. Archived from the original on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2011.