Angelo Crema

Angelo Crema
Personal information
Full nameAngelo Fiori Crema
Born (1941-07-30) 30 July 1941 (age 83)
Playing information
PositionSecond-row
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1963–68 Queensland 11 4 0 0 12
1966 Australia 1 0 0 0 0

Angelo Fiori Crema (born 30 July 1941) is an Australian former rugby league player.

A Tully cane farmer, Crema is one of five siblings born to Italian migrants and began playing rugby league while boarding at Downlands College in Toowoomba. He spent his entire first-grade career with Tully.[1]

Crema, a forward, was a regular Far North Queensland, North Queensland and Queensland representative player during the 1960s. He also made a single Test match appearance for Australia when he was chosen to replace Arthur Beetson in the second-row for their series opener against Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1966.[2]

In 2008, Crema was named in the North Queensland Team of the Century.[3]

  1. ^ "One Moment of Glory". The Canberra Times. 28 April 1985. p. 30 (Good Weekend) – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Big Change Here Again". The Sydney Morning Herald. 23 June 1966.
  3. ^ "North's legends revealed". Townsville Bulletin. 31 May 2008. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008.