Herman Peters
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| Born | 18 April 1899 North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 September 1989 (aged 90) Lane Cove, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Herman Peters (1899–1989) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s.[1] He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School.[2] An international representative centre, he played his club football with North Sydney in the NSWRFL premiership and won two premierships with the club.[3]
Playing career
[edit]Peters played eight games of the 1921 NSWRFL season in which the North Sydney team won the premiership without having to play a final. As part of Norths' champion backline, he gained selection on the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain,[4] along with clubmates, Blinkhorn, Rule, Horder, Ives and Thompson. He went on to play in the 1922 NSWRFL season's Premiership Final for Norths, scoring a try to help them claim consecutive premierships. In the 1923 NSWRFL season, Peters was the premiership season's top try-scorer. He scored 16 tries in 18 games.[5][6]
Post playing
[edit]Peters coached North Sydney in the 1934 NSWRFL season. He later went on to be a National Selector for the ARL. He was known as "The Grand Old Man" of the North Sydney Bears club and was a staunch supporter right up to his death in 1989.[7] Before his death in 1989, Peters was quoted as saying "Hoping for Norths to win another one has kept me going I've watched them all the years since 1922, and I want to be there on the day it happens".[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Herman Peters Archived 9 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine at yesterdayshero.com.au
- ^ Pupil Number 61 on NSBHS School Roll. Entered February 1915 under name Hermann Peters
- ^ Herman Peters Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine at nrlstats.com
- ^ Herman Peters at rugbyleagueproject.org
- ^ Herman Peters Archived 23 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine at northsydneybears.com.au
- ^ "Happy 110th Birthday North Sydney". North Sydney Bears. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ^ Alan Whiticker: Rugbyleagueproject.org
- ^ https://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/files/assets/.../6.../15_the_mighty_bears.pdf [dead link]