Joe Pearce (Australian rugby league)

For the Australian rules footballer, see Joe Pearce (footballer). For the British rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 1930s, see Joe Pearce (British rugby league).

Joe Pearce
Pearce in 1932
Personal information
Full nameSidney Henry William Pearce
Born(1910-09-07)7 September 1910[1]
Woollahra, New South Wales
Died16 October 1995(1995-10-16) (aged 85)
Double Bay, New South Wales
Playing information
Weight15 st 0 lb (95 kg)
PositionSecond-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1929–42 Eastern Suburbs 147 34 14 0 130
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1930–41 New South Wales 32 6 10 0 38
1932–37 Australia 13 1 1 0 5
1930–41 NSW City 12 5 5 0 25
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
1942 Eastern Suburbs 7 2 0 5 29
1944 Eastern Suburbs 7 2 0 5 29
Total 14 4 0 10 29

Sid 'Joe' Pearce (7 September 1910 – 16 October 1995) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. An Australian international and New South Wales representative second-row forward, he played his club football for Eastern Suburbs with whom he won the New South Wales Rugby League premiership in 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1940. Son of fellow Australian Rugby League Hall of Famer, Sandy Pearce, he is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.[2]

  1. ^ NRL Hall of Fame: Sid "Joe" Pearce
  2. ^ Century's Top 100 Players Archived 25 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine