- For the footballer Ian Moir, see here. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Ian Moir (born 30 June 1943 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish former professional footballer.
Ian Moir was an Australian rugby league player, a champion wing three-quarter of the 1950s for the South Sydney Rabbitohs. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. History See also History of rugby league The grass roots of rugby league can be traced to early football history, through the playing of ball games A typical Rugby league team consists of thirteen players on the field plus four substitutes on the bench The South Sydney Rabbitohs, also known as Souths, The Bunnies, SSFC or The Rabbits, are an Australian professional Rugby league He made eight Test appearances for the Australian national representative side and represented in four World Cup matches in two World Cups and in 14 Kangaroo tour matches. The Rugby League World Cup is an international competition contested by the men's national rugby league teams of the member nations of the Rugby League International
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Club career and records
He was a prodiguous try scorer and played in South Sydney's three Premiership victories between 1953 and 1955. In 1953 he scored three tries in the 31-12 Grand Final against St George, capping off a season where he was Souths leading try scorer with a tally of 23. The St George Dragons were a team in the National Rugby League competition in Australia This total stands in 3rd place in the club's all-time list of most tries in a season.
He is one of six Rabbitohs players to score five tries in a match, doing so in Round 7 of 1957 against Parramatta at Redfern Oval. The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional Rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. Redfern Oval is a football ground located in Redfern, Sydney, Australia.
His 105 career tries for the Rabbitohs in 110 games stands in 2nd place behind Benny Wearing's 144 in the all-time club record list. The South Sydney Rabbitohs, also known as Souths, The Bunnies, SSFC or The Rabbits, are an Australian professional Rugby league Benny Wearing (1901 - 1968 was an Australian Rugby league player a star of the 1920s to 30s for the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
In 2004 he was named by Souths in their South Sydney Dream Team,[1], consisting of 17 players and a coach representing the club from 1908 through to 2004. The 1908 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the inaugural season of Australia 's first Rugby league football competition which was based in The year 2004 's National Rugby League season was the 97th season of professional Rugby league football in Australia, and the seventh run by the
Representative career
He debuted for Australia in the inaugural World Cup in France in 1954. The Rugby League World Cup is an international competition contested by the men's national rugby league teams of the member nations of the Rugby League International
In his representative career he played Tests against all the rugby league playing nations and toured Great Britain with the 1956 Kangaroos where he played in two Tests and 14 tour matches and topped the tour try scoring list with 13 tries.
He featured in Australia's victorious 1957 World Cup campaign played at home.
Sources
- Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League, Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
- NRL Official 2007 Season Guide, News Magazines Surry Hills Sydney, for the National Rugby League
Footnotes
- ^ South Sydney Dream Team from the official South Sydney website.
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