Johnny Hunter is an Australian former 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 1940s and 50s. He played in Sydney's NSWRFL Premiership for the Eastern Suburbs club

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

. The 1945 NSWRFL season was his first, and at the end of it he played at centre in Easts' Grand Final victory.

In January 1947 Hunter, along with Eastern Suburbs

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

 teammate Lionel Cooper

Lionel Cooper

Lionel Cooper was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s. A state and international representative winger, he played in Sydney for the Eastern Suburbs club and in England for Huddersfield.-Australian career:...

 signed to play with English club Huddersfield

Huddersfield Giants

Huddersfield Giants are a professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire who play in the European Super League competition. They play their home games at the Galpharm Stadium which is shared with Huddersfield Town F.C....

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Hunter scored 16 tries during the 1948-49 Northern Rugby Football League season

1948-49 Northern Rugby Football League season

-Challenge Cup:Bradford beat Halifax 12-0 in the final played at Wembley in front of a world record rugby league crowd of 95,050. Trevor Foster and Eric Batten scored the tries for Bradford and Ernest Ward kicked three goals as well as winning the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.This was...

, breaking the record for a fullback set by Jim Sullivan.

He played in Huddersfield's victory at the 1953 Challenge Cup Final, having to be stretchered from the field after a "stiff-arm" from St. Helens' winger Steve Llewellyn

Steve Llewellyn

Stewart Marshall "Steve" Llewellyn was a Welsh professional rugby league footballer who rose to prominence in the 1950s. A born in Abertyleri, Blaenau Gwent, he equalled the St. Helens' club record for most tries in a match twice by scoring six against Castleford on the 3 March 1956, and again...

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Also while in England, Hunter played eight matches for the Other Nationalities rugby league team

Other Nationalities rugby league team

The Other Nationalities rugby league team regularly played international, and also county, rugby league football teams in Europe from 1904 to 1975. The team, created in 1904 to play England in the first ever rugby league international match, was at first made up of Welsh and Scottish players...

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Hunter played for Huddersfield until 1955.

External links

• Johnny Hunter at rugbyleagueproject.org