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Intro | Australian rugby league player | |
A.K.A. | Nigel Kevin Watts | |
A.K.A. | Nigel Kevin Watts | |
Places | Australia | |
was | Military personnel | |
Work field | Military | |
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Birth | 21 October 1919, Enmore, Australia | |
Death | 17 February 1995 (aged 75 years) | |
Star sign | Libra |
Biography
Nigel Kevin Watts (1919-1995) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s.
Playing career
Watts was a schoolboy rugby union start from St. Josephs College, who went on to star for the Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union club before embarking on a brief rugby league career at St. George during World War II . As he had never played Rugby League before, the residential-rule did not apply to Watts, who was a resident of Bondi at the time. Watts was in the Australian Army during his time at the Saints , although after he was discharged from the Army, he moved to a captain/coach role in the Illawarra competition in 1946. He represented a combined South Coast Division representative team that defeated the touring Great Britain national rugby league team 15-12 at Wollongong, New South Wales on 2 June 1946.
Death
Watts died in Sydney, New South Wales on 17 February 1995