| New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1967 |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |  South Sydney (17th title) |
| Minor premiers |  St. George (13th title) |
| Matches played | 136 |
| Points scored | 3827 (average 28. The South Sydney Rabbitohs, also known as Souths, The Bunnies, SSFC or The Rabbits, are an Australian professional Rugby league The St George Dragons were a team in the National Rugby League competition in Australia 14 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,769,881 (average 13,014 per match) |
The 1967 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the sixtieth season of the rugby league football competition based in Sydney. New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the first Rugby league football club competition established in Australia 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 Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 The introduction of the Cronulla-Sutherland and Penrith clubs saw a total of twelve teams from across the Sydney area contest during the season. The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional Rugby league team based in Cronulla New South Wales in the Sutherland Shire, south of Sydney The Penrith Panthers is an Australian professional Rugby league football team
Season summary
The 1967 season was the first played under the four tackle rule, replacing the previous era (since the code's 1908 inception) of unlimited tackles.
1967 also saw the NSWRFL expand to twelve teams with the introduction of the Penrith Panthers and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. The Penrith Panthers is an Australian professional Rugby league football team The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional Rugby league team based in Cronulla New South Wales in the Sutherland Shire, south of Sydney
The twelve sides met each other twice in twenty-two regular premiership rounds before the top four teams battled out four finals. For the sixth consecutive season the St George Dragons finished as minor premiers. The St George Dragons were a team in the National Rugby League competition in Australia
The South Sydney Rabbitohs won their seventeenth premiership, defeating Canterbury-Bankstown 12-10 in the Grand Final. The South Sydney Rabbitohs, also known as Souths, The Bunnies, SSFC or The Rabbits, are an Australian professional Rugby league The Bulldogs Rugby League Football Club (formerly Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and "The Berries") are an Australian professional Rugby league This finally spelled the end for St. George's monopoly on Grand Final wins which lasted over a decade, and commenced a new period of Souths' dominance, in which they would win four premierships in a five-year period.
Teams
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Ladder
Finals
Grand Final
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The Manly - Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional Rugby league club based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney The Balmain Tigers (also known as the Sydney Tigers from 1995-96 were one of the founding rugby league football clubs of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership The Western Suburbs Magpies are a Rugby league football club in Sydney Australia The North Sydney Bears are an Australian Rugby league football club based in Sydney who currently compete in the New South Wales Cup. The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional Rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. The Newtown Jets (formerly the Newtown "Bluebags") are a former first grade Rugby league club who departed the New South Wales Rugby Football League The Penrith Panthers is an Australian professional Rugby league football team The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional Rugby league team based in Cronulla New South Wales in the Sutherland Shire, south of Sydney The Bulldogs Rugby League Football Club (formerly Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and "The Berries") are an Australian professional Rugby league The Sydney Roosters is a professional Rugby league club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG is a sports Stadium in Sydney. The St George Dragons were a team in the National Rugby League competition in Australia The South Sydney Rabbitohs, also known as Souths, The Bunnies, SSFC or The Rabbits, are an Australian professional Rugby league The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG is a sports Stadium in Sydney. 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South Sydney, led by new skipper John Sattler, began their period of dominance by downing Canterbury in a torrid 80 minutes played in bleak conditions with a light rain throughout. Taylforth and Eric Simms opened accounts with early goals, before John O'Neill barged over for a close-range try from dummy half. Canterbury's Ron Raper responded with a field-goal kicked from halfway and then Taylforth punished Souths with two successful penalty goals after firstly a clash between Kevin Ryan and O'Neill and then a scrum infringement. Canterbury led 8-5.
The turning point came just before half-time when Rabbitohs second rower Bob McCarthy swooped on a lofted pass from Canterbury's Col Brown intended for Johnny Greaves and ran the length of the field to take Souths into the break with a 10-8 lead.
Taylforth kicked his fourth goal to take the scores level nine minutes into the second-half but from that point on the match became a tight arm wrestle. With five minutes remaining Canterbury's Ross Kidd was penalised for a scrum feed and Simms kicked the Rabbitohs to a two point lead which they held to give them their 17th premiership title. It marked the beginning of a new golden period for Souths and Ron Coote, Mike Cleary, Bob McCarthy, O'Neill, Sattler and Simms would win four premierships in the next five seasons and figure prominently in representative squads of that period.
South Sydney 12 ( Tries: O,Neill, McCarthy. Goals: Simms 3. )
Canterbury 10 ( Goals: Taylforth 4. Fld Goal: Raper . )
References
Notes
- ^ Big League, July13 2006 p. 7
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