Kel O'Shea

Kel O'Shea
Personal information
Full nameKelvin Joseph O'Shea
Born13 July 1933
Ayr, Queensland, Australia
Died22 January 2015(2015-01-22) (aged 81)
Redland Bay, Queensland, Australia
Playing information
PositionSecond-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1953–55 Colts (Ayr)
1955[1] Souths (Brisbane)
1956–63 Western Suburbs 111 30 0 0 90
1965 Maitland
Total 111 30 0 0 90
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1953–55 Queensland 8 0 0 0 0
1956–58 New South Wales 8 0 0 0 0
1954–58 Australia 20 7 0 0 21
1956–61 NSW City 3 0 0 0 0
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
1965 Maitland

Kelvin Joseph "Kel" O'Shea (13 July 1933 – 22 January 2015) was an Australian representative rugby league footballer, a second-rower from Queensland whose club career was played with the Western Suburbs Magpies in Sydney. He is rated among the nation's best players of the 20th century.[2]

  1. ^ "Kel O'Shea at the SportingPulse Homepage for Northern Division". Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  2. ^ Century's Top 100 Players Archived 25 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, livenews.com.au; accessed 10 September 2014.