Jimmy Lisle was an Australian rugby league and rugby union player - a dual code rugby international. 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 Overview See also Playing rugby union A rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes (plus stoppage time with a short He represented the Wallabies in 4 Tests in 1961 and the Australia national rugby league team in 13 matches on the 1963 Kangaroo tour. The Australian national rugby union team is the representative side of Australia in Rugby union.
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Union career
A champion schoolboy athlete Lisle broke into first grade in 1959 with the Sydney suburban club, Drummoyne DRUFC (the "Dirty Reds"). He debuted for NSW in 1960 and in 1961 he played 3 Tests for the Wallabies against Fiji and one against South Africa. He played Rugby Union at fly half or centre.
League career
He joined the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 1962 and played 106 grade games with the club till 1968. The South Sydney Rabbitohs, also known as Souths, The Bunnies, SSFC or The Rabbits, are an Australian professional Rugby league After just one appearance in the professional code in 1961 he was selected for New South Wales, and after just five club appearances he was selected in the all conquering 1963 Kangaroo tour of England and France. He played in the premiership winning Souths side of 1967. He played Rugby League at five-eighth.
Along with Kevin Ryan , Jimmy Lisle made his international league debut in a tour match in Great Britain 1963 but he did not play in any Tests on the tour. Kevin James Ryan, born 26 August, 1934 in Ipswich Queensland) is a former Australian state parliamentarian and local Mayor, and a Collectively he and Ryan are were Australia's 29th and 30th dual code rugby internationals.
Ronald James "Jimmy" Lisle died in 2003.
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
League playing record
- Club: South Sydney Rabbitohs 106 games, 35 tries
- Representative: Australia 6 Tests. The South Sydney Rabbitohs, also known as Souths, The Bunnies, SSFC or The Rabbits, are an Australian professional Rugby league
Footnotes
- ^ South Sydney Dream Team from the official South Sydney website.
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