Jim Craig (rugby league)
(1895-1959)
Australian rugby league player and coach
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Jim Craig (1895–1959) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He was a versatile back for the Australian national team. He played in 7 Tests between 1921 and 1928 as captain on 3 occasions and has since been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. Craig was a player of unparalleled versatility. It is known that he represented in Tests at fullback, centre, halfback and hooker with some of his club & tour football played at winger, five-eighth and lock forward. Whiticker's reference reports that the great Dally Messenger regarded Craig as the greatest player Messenger ever saw.
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James Hampden Craig 1895 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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1959 (aged 63) Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia
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