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Full name | Sidney Charles Pearce | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 30 May 1883 Double Bay, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 November 1930 Double Bay, Australia | (aged 47)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 87 kg (13 st 10 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Hooker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Yesterday's Hero As of 1 August 2009 |
Sidney Charles Pearce (born 30 May 1883 and died 14 November 1930 Double Bay, New South Wales), better known as Sandy, was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer and boxer. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.[1] In 1907 he played for New South Wales in the first rugby match run by the newly created 'New South Wales Rugby Football League' which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union. He made his first national representative appearance in 1908.