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Full name | Walter Joseph Prigg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia | 17 October 1908|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 8 September 1980 Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia | (aged 71)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Five-eighth, Lock | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wally Prigg (1908–1980) was an Australian rugby league footballer. He was a lock for the Australian national rugby league team. He played nineteen Tests for the Kangaroos between 1929 and 1938, seven as captain and was the first Australian player to make three tours to Great Britain with the Australian national rugby league team.[1] He has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.