Jack Holland (rugby league)

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Jack Holland
Jack Holland 1949.jpg
Personal information
Full name John Frederick Holland
Nickname Dutchy
Born 19 August 1922
Penshurst, New South Wales, Australia
Died 23 January 1994 (age 71)
Brighton-Le-Sands, N.S.W.
Playing information
Position Front-row forward
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1947–52 St. George 87 27 3 0 87
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1948–51 City NSW 5 1 0 0 3
1948–51 New South Wales 4 1 3
1948–50 Australia 7 0 1 0 2

Jack Holland (1922-1994) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative forward, he played his club football in Sydney's NSWRFL Premiership for the St. George club.[1]

Career

Born in Sydney on Saturday, 19 August 1922, Holland served in the Army during World War II.[2] Commencing his first-grade NSWRFL Premiership playing career with St. George in 1947,[3] he was selected to represent New South Wales in 1948. In 1948 Holland was also first selected for the Australian national team, becoming Kangaroo No. 252.[4] He also went on the 1948-49 Kangaroo tour.[5] At the end of the 1949 NSWRFL season, Holland played for St. George at prop forward in their grand final victory against South Sydney. During the 1951 French rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand, Holland was selected to play for the Sydney representative rugby league team that drew with the Les Chanticleers. After playing six seasons at St. George,the 1952 NSWRFL season was the last to feature Jack Holland.

Holland died in 1994, aged 71.[6]

File:St george team1949.jpg
Holland (back 3rd from right) in St. George's 1949 premiership-winning team

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