Herman Peters

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]

Herman Peters
Personal information
Born(1899-04-18)18 April 1899
North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died10 September 1989(1989-09-10) (aged 90)
Lane Cove, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
PositionCentre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1917–25 North Sydney 101 62 2 0 190
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1921–22 Australia 0 0 0 0 0
1921–23 New South Wales 2 1 0 0 3
1919–23 Metropolis 3 7 0 0 21
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
1934 North Sydney 14 5 0 9 36
Source: &

Playing career

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

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
  1. Herman Peters at yesterdayshero.com.au
  2. Pupil Number 61 on NSBHS School Roll. Entered February 1915 under name Hermann Peters
  3. Herman Peters Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine at nrlstats.com
  4. Herman Peters at rugbyleagueproject.org
  5. Herman Peters Archived 23 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine at northsydneybears.com.au
  6. "Happy 110th Birthday North Sydney". North Sydney Bears. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  7. Alan Whiticker: Rugbyleagueproject.org
  8. https://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/files/assets/.../6.../15_the_mighty_bears.pdf
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