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Dan Frawley

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421: 36: 456:. His sign-on fee was 125 pounds (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £45,440 in 2015). and a further 3 pounds, 5 shillings a week during the season. Frawley played in 19 matches for Warrington club scoring 8 tries. After returning to Australia in 1910 Frawley made a guest appearance for 431: 555:"I remember Dan walking onto the field one day against a champion winger. The first thing he did was to go up to him and say 'I saw your dad this morning. He asked me not to dump you too hard.' then later in the game, having dumped his rival hard, possibly from an 839: 412:
Frawley played in Easts' first match and was later selected to represent City New South Wales against Queensland. He missed his club's appearance in the final at the end of the season as he had been selected to go on the inaugural
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spell with Warrington. The dispute saw him miss the first part of the tour, but after eventually being granted a clearance Frawley scored 18 tries in the remaining 12 matches. Frawley also won
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called Frawley "one of rugby league's most colourful identities" and declared that "he would have been an immortal in the code's history for any one of a number of just reasons."
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for his role in the series that helped to establish rugby league in this country. For many years he worked at the NSW Leagues Club in Sydney as Chief Steward.
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In 1908 back in Sydney, Frawley turned to the new professional code and in rugby league's early years he was one of the game's most exciting players. In the
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Frawley was said to be quick-witted and extremely competitive in nature. He appears to have been one of the game's earliest sledgers. Former teammate
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position, he jawed at him, 'so you're so-and-so, the great international winger. Well, I got you that time. I don't think you're so hot'."
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club in Sydney and is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. A fast and agile
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a dispute broke out over his playing eligibility due to an outstanding contractual matter from his
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with the Eastern Suburbs club the following year. Frawley was also a member of the first
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of 1908–09 playing in two Tests and 22 tour matches. He scored 13 tries on the tour.
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Frawley, who had been an emergency for the rebel series against the New Zealand '
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Of Irish parentage, Frawley grew up in the inner Sydney harbourside suburb of
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Serviceman's team which competed against a representative Australian side.
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and his final Test match also in Sydney in 1914 was the famous '
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In February 2008, Frawley was named in the list of Australia's
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Frawley spent the Australian summer of 1909–10 playing in the
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Frawley (back row, 4th from right) Pioneer Kangaroos 1908–09
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The Mirror of Australia (Sydney, NSW : 1915 – 1917)
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He played in Easts' first premiership-winning side of
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to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.
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Daniel Frawley

Sydney
New South Wales
Australia
Kensington
New South Wales
Australia
Wing
Eastern Suburbs
Warrington
City NSW
Australia
rugby league
national
wing
Eastern Suburbs
wing
Immortal
Dally Messenger
1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain
Woolloomooloo
Australian Commonwealth Horse
Second Boer War
South Africa
Commonwealth
1908 NSWRFL season
Kangaroo tour

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