Rugby League Project has these players as the only ones to score at least 6 tries in a game before tonight:
Frank Burge (Glebe) - 8 tries/Jun 19th, 1920 - Glebe vs. University, 6 tries/Jul 1st, 1916 - North Sydney vs. Glebe
Roderick O'Loan (Eastern Suburbs) - 7 tries/May 11th, 1935 - Sydney vs. University
David Brown (Eastern Suburbs) - 6 tries/Aug 10th, 1935 - Sydney vs. Canterbury, Aug 31st, 1935 - Balmain vs. Sydney
Alan Ridley (Western Suburbs) - 6 tries/Jul 11th, 1936 - Western Suburbs vs. Newtown
John Lindwall (St George) - 6 tries/May 3rd, 1947 - St George vs. Manly Warringah
John Troy (Newtown) - 6 tries/Jul 8th, 1950 - Sydney vs. Newtown
If you want to count international play, Valentine Holmes has also scored 6 tries once, against Fiji at the 2017 RLWC. Hugh McGahan has also scored 6 against PNG in 1983 (per u/lachjeff).
TL;DR Frank Burge and David Brown are legends for doing it twice.
League Information Services previously brought up George Green at 38 years, 8 months and 20 days as the oldest known premiership player when he won in 1922 with North Sydney: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/gallen-eyes-off-96-year-nrl-record
To put it in perspective, currently 38 other players have played 300 first grade games in league history. 88 of those wins did come during the Storm’s asterisk era for those who enjoy that stuff, but still an insane stat.
Unlike my last post, I don’t think this is total bollocks but correct me if I’m missing someone (again). Atkins’ feat was for Gold Coast, Stuntz’s haul was for Easts and Nash’s was for Canterbury-Bankstown.
Written by madunit (@AndrewRLP) back in 2008
Blatantly stolen from someone who stole it from here
Throughout the hundred years of Rugby League in Australia there have been many controversies. Most involving drugs, rape, money, sex, deceit, theft, false medical conditions, sauce, the list goes on.
But one incident tops all of these. One incident involving adultery, attempted murder, depression, attempted suicide, divorce, the end of a sportsman’s career and a forbidden love. An incident that would have the script writers of ‘Days Of Our Lives’ salivating.
Bobby Lulham was born in Newcastle in 1926 and started playing Rugby League as soon as he could. He moved to Sydney to play for Balmain in 1947. Lulham was an outstanding winger for Balmain immediately. In his debut season he became the season’s top tryscorer with 28 tries, which is a Balmain club record for most tries in a season, still to this day.
In his debut year he was selected for New South Wales in all 4 games, as well as playing for Balmain in their 13-7 Grand Final win over Canterbury. A year later he made his debut for Australia in the third test against Great Britain. He scored a try on debut, however Australia lost 23-9. He played two more tests against France on the 1948-49 Kangaroo tour.
Everything pointed towards Lulham becoming a superstar in the mould of Blinkhorn, Horder and Wearing. Until the 1953 season.
1953 started well for Lulham, he was in good form and Balmain were performing reasonably well. On July 18, Balmain lost to Canterbury 14-7, and it was noticed that Lulham’s performance was well below his usually consistent high standard. He told the Balmain officials that he just had an off day, which they accepted and nothing more was said of the matter.
Once Lulham got home, he called his doctor to come to his house and try and figure out what was wrong with him. His doctor came to the conclusion Lulham had a stomach ulcer.
This is where the story gets interesting.
Two days after the loss to Canterbury, and with Lulham bedridden, the NSWRL doctor received an anonymous phone call from a woman, who claimed her husband had put poison in Lulham’s beer before the game against Canterbury. The doctor immediately notified the police. Lulham was consequently relocated to hospital as his condition continued to deteriorate.
The police knew immediately that Lulh
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