Jack Lindwall was an Australian rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 footballer of the 1930s and 40s. He is also the older brother of Australian Cricket Hall of Fame

Australian Cricket Hall of Fame

The Australian Cricket Hall of Fame is a part of the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum in the National Sports Museum at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. This Hall of Fame commemorates the greatest Australian cricketers of all time....

 inaugural inductee and fellow rugby league player, Ray Lindwall

Ray Lindwall

Raymond Russell Lindwall MBE was a cricketer who represented Australia in 61 Tests from 1946 to 1960. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. He also played top-flight rugby league football with St...

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A prolific try-scoring three-quarter, Jack Lindwall played his entire New South Wales Rugby Football League career with the St. George Dragons

St. George Dragons

The St George Dragons was an Australian Rugby league football club in St George, Sydney, New South Wales that played in Australia's top-level Rugby league competition from New South Wales Rugby Football League in 1921 until 1998; in 1999 they formed a joint venture with the Illawarra Steelers,...

club, for whom he set records for both most tries and points in a match. He played in St. George's Grand Final teams of 1942 and 1946 and retired as the club's all-time top try-scorer.
Lindwall died at age 82 in June 2000.

External links

• Jack Lindwall at rugbyleagueproject.org