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Brisbane Rugby League 1971, Round Eighteen

By the early 1970s, the Brisbane Telegraph, the Courier Mail and the Sunday Mail had developed a useful complementarity. The Telegraph did a comprehensive preview on Friday, while the Mails did mostly pretty good match reports on Sunday and Monday.

While it was useful, it was tenuous, and there are some pages missing from the 9 August edition of the Courier Mail held by the State Library of Queensland. The Telegraph’s Monday edition reported the results but not the point-scorers, so I can’t attribute the points to anybody for two of the three Sunday games played in round 18.

I can attribute the points for the Brothers-Redcliffe game due to annotations made by a Redcliffe supporter in an old copy of Rugby League News (see below). All the annotations this supporter made previously and subsequently in relation to points scored were consistent with newspaper reports, so I’ve no reason to doubt them.

Valleys vs Wests
Saturday, August 07, 1971
Venue: Lang Park, Milton
Crowd: N/A
ValleysWests
2312
Tries:Tries:
H O’Doherty (3), J Gill,R Allen, J White
M Retchless
Goals:Goals:
N Clarke (4)R Twist (3)
Teams*
Norm Clarke1Kevin Denman
Mike Norris2Arch Brown
Gerry Fitzpatrick3John White
Mick Retchless4Bob Richards
Darryl Abraham5Kerry Healy
Dave Robertson6Bob Black
Ross Threlfo7Greg Oliphant
Jeff Gill8Richie Twist
John Crilly9Kev Treschman
Leon McGuire10Jeff McKenzie
Russell Hughes11Max Williamson
Hugh O’Doherty12Arthur Connell
John McCabe13Tom Whitmore
Ron Gurnett14R Allen
*Teams are in order of listing/positions – players not necessarily in the right numbers
Source: Rugby League News, 7-8 August, page 9; Sunday Mail, 8 August, pages 29-30.

Easts vs Norths
Sunday, August 08, 1971
Venue: Lang Park, Milton
Crowd: N/A
EastsNorths
102
Tries:Tries:
N/AN/A
Goals:Goals:
N/AN/A
Teams*
Roger Kuhn1Peter Lobegeiger
Max Allen2Bob Peut
John Eales3Athol Gear
Allan Currie4Brian Adams
Jeff Denman5Len Stacker
Bob Pearse6Ray Cattanach
Terry Creedy7John Brown
Ray Norbury8Peter Videroni
Jeff Fyfe9Ron Streek
Des Morris10Rod Tolhurst
Ron Lewis11Peter Hall
John Lang12Alan Nunan
Paul Khan13Don Simpson
*Teams are in order of listing/positions – players not necessarily in the right numbers
Source: Rugby League News, 7-8 August, page 13; Telegraph, 9 August, page 38.

Brothers vs Redcliffe
Sunday, August 08, 1971
Venue: Redcliffe Showground, Redcliffe
Crowd: N/A
BrothersRedcliffe
1717
Tries:Tries:
P Gayler, G Cronk,P Massy, A McLean,
P ButterworthB Bleakley
Goals:Goals:
G Thomas (4)P Morgan (4)
Teams*
Peter Butterworth1Tony Obst
Peter Skerman2Lester Carter
Barry Dowling3Peter Leis
Paul Gayler4Mike Frawley
Noel Grealy5Selwyn Guy
Graham Cronk6Trevor Harken
John Smith7Les Cahill
Greg Thomas8Bevan Bleakley
David Wright9Darryl Scheiwe
Rob Norris10Trevor Day
Geoff Carson11Paul Morgan
Bob Anderton12Phil Massy
Darryl Harrower13Alan McLean
14Alan Henrick
15Ian Thinee
*Teams are in order of listing/positions – players not necessarily in the right numbers
Source: Rugby League News, 7-8 August, page 15 (annotations for points scored); Telegraph, 9 August, page 38.

Souths vs Wynnum-Manly
Sunday, August 08, 1971
Venue: Kougari Oval, Manly West
Crowd: N/A
SouthsWynnum-Manly
4525
Tries:Tries:
N/AN/A
Goals:Goals:
N/AN/A
Teams*
Tony Scott1Bob Patterson
Brian Turnbull2Warren Hodges
John Grant3Ian Yeo
John Graham4Don Eagles
Gary Waters5Robert McKercher
Graeme Atherton6Dean Purdy
Doug Stapleton7Gary Dobrich
Mick Kowal8George Baldacchino
Amen Gutugutuwai9Wayne James
Moretiki Nabuta10Len Brunner
Jim Murphy11Judd Baker
Wayne Linsell12Gordon Haigh
Isoa Volavola13Trevor Niebling
*Teams are in order of listing/positions – players not necessarily in the right numbers
Source: Rugby League News, 7-8 August, page 14; Telegraph, 9 August, page 38.

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