Tom Wright (rugby league footballer)
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Tom Wright was an Australia
n rugby league
player for the North Sydney Bears
in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership
competition. Wright was captain-coach for the Bears during the 1931 season
.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n 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...
player for the North Sydney Bears
North Sydney Bears
The North Sydney Bears are an Australian rugby league football club based in North Sydney, New South Wales. They currently compete in the New South Wales Cup, having exited the National Rugby League following the 1999 NRL season after 92 years of top-grade competition. The Bears are based on...
in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership
New South Wales Rugby League premiership
The New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the first rugby league football club competition established in Australia. Run by the New South Wales Rugby League from 1908 until 1994, the premiership was the state's and later the country's elite rugby league competition...
competition. Wright was captain-coach for the Bears during the 1931 season
New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1931
The 1931 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the twenty-fourth season of Sydney's top-level rugby league football club competition, Australia's first...
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