Jim Davis (rugby league)

For the Welsh rugby union, and rugby league footballer of the 1900s, 1910s and 1920s, and rugby league coach of the 1920s, see Jim Davies (rugby). For the Welsh rugby union footballer of the 2010s, see James Davies (rugby union).

Jim Davis
Personal information
Full nameWalter James Davis
Born(1887-04-13)13 April 1887
Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia
Died9 February 1934(1934-02-09) (aged 47)
Parkes, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
PositionSecond-row, Lock
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1908–10 South Sydney 30 8 20 0 64
1911 North Sydney 11 0 1 0 2
1912 South Sydney 8 2 0 0 6
1913 Glebe 12 1 3 0 9
1914–19 South Sydney 27 2 0 0 6
Parkes
Total 88 13 24 0 87
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1908–12 New South Wales 8 1 6 0 15
1908–09 Australia 3 1 1 0 5
Source: [1][2]
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Jim Davis (1887–1934) was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer. He was one of his country's first national representative players making the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and then had a patchy first-grade club career in the first decade of the code's popularity in Sydney.

  1. ^ Rugby League Project
  2. ^ "Yesterday's Hero - Your Sporting Hero's - Jim Davis - Glebe, North Sydney, South Sydney". Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  3. ^ Whiticker, Hudson p121