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Ray Preston (rugby league)

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loss to South Sydney. The 34 tries he scored in the 1954 season made him the competition's leading try scorer, and is also the Newtown club's record for most tries ever in a season. This record has never been bettered. His other winger in 1954,
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Preston was also a professional runner, winning the Hanlon Gift (which was Queensland's largest 'prize money' footrace of the era) in Brisbane in 1957. He played a season at
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to Souths. During his eight seasons at Newtown, he played in over 100 games and he scored a record 107 tries.
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footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He was one of the game's most prolific
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Preston started his career in the Newtown Juniors Lewisham Club. At the end of the
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Whittacker/Hudson: The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. 1995
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biography relating to an Australian born in the 1920s is a
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Australian rugby league biography, 1920s birth stubs
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Index

Sydney
Penrith
Wing
Newtown
Parramatta
NSW City
rugby league
try
New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership
Newtown club
wing
1954
1955
grand finals
1954 NSWRFL season
grand final
Kevin Considine
Macksville
Parramatta
1958 NSWRFL season
Parramatta
Penrith
"Ray Preston"
"Vale Ray Preston"
ISBN
1875169571
"Ray Preston"
"Parramatta R.L. signs Ray Preston"
The Sydney Morning Herald
"Vale: NRL in Memoriam 2019"

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