1968 NSWRFL season

1968 NSWRFL season
1968 NSWRFL season
Teams 12
Premiers South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney (18th title)
Minor premiers South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney (14th title)
Matches played 136
Points scored 4027 (total)
29.61 (per match)
Attendance 1,894,627 (total)
13,931 (per match)
Top point scorer(s) South Sydney colours.svg Eric Simms (212)
Top try scorer(s) St. George colours.svg Stan Gorton (22)

The 1968 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the sixty-first season of professional rugby league football in Australia. Twelve teams, including six Sydney-based foundation teams and another six from around Sydney competed for the J J Giltinan Shield and the WD & HO Wills Cup during the season, which culminated in a grand final between South Sydney and Manly-Warringah.

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Season summary

The 1968 season's Rothmans Medallist was Cronulla-Sutherland's Terry Hughes.

The Balmain club narrowly missed out on a place in the top four, which was made up of South Sydney, Manly-Warringah, St. George and Eastern Suburbs.

Teams

Balmain home jersey 1963.svg
Balmain
Canterbury home jersey 1966.svg
Canterbury-Bankstown
Cronulla home jersey 1967.svg
Cronulla-Sutherland
Eastern Suburbs home jersey 1953.svg
Eastern Suburbs
Manly Sea Eagles home jersey 1965.svg
Manly-Warringah
Newtown Jets home jersey 1908.svg
Newtown
North Sydney Bears home jersey 1951.svg
North Sydney
Parramatta Eels home jersey 1957.svg
Parramatta
Penrith Panthers home jersey 1967.svg
Penrith
South Sydney home jersey 1908.svg
South Sydney
St. George home jersey 1945.svg
St. George
Western Suburbs home jersey 1959.svg
Western Suburbs

Ladder

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 22 16 0 6 394 271 +123 32
2 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly 22 15 1 6 379 282 +97 31
3 St. George colours.svg St. George 22 13 3 6 416 320 +96 29
4 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 22 14 1 7 362 274 +88 29
5 Balmain colours.svg Balmain 22 14 0 8 393 284 +109 28
6 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 22 12 1 9 308 284 +24 25
7 Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 22 12 0 10 328 279 +49 24
8 Panthers colours.svg Penrith 22 11 0 11 298 352 -54 22
9 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 22 9 1 12 259 301 -42 19
10 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla 22 6 0 16 259 405 -146 12
11 North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney 22 4 0 18 259 388 -129 8
12 Newtown colours.svg Newtown 22 2 1 19 257 472 -215 5

Finals

Home Score Away Match Information
Date and Time Venue Referee Crowd
Semi Finals
St. George colours.svg St. George 17 - 10 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 31 August 1968 Sydney Cricket Ground Col Pearce 49,747
South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 15 - 23 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 7 September 1968 Sydney Cricket Ground Col Pearce 49,128
Preliminary Final
South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 20 - 8 St. George colours.svg St. George 14 September 1968 Sydney Cricket Ground Col Pearce 44,803
Grand Final
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 9 - 13 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 21 September 1968 Sydney Cricket Ground Col Pearce 54,255

Grand Final

Manly-Warringah Position South Sydney
Bob Batty FB Eric Simms
Michael McLean WG Michael Cleary
Alex Tennant CE Bob Honan
Frank Stanton CE Arthur Branighan
Les Hanigan WG Brian James
Bob Fulton (c) FE Denis Pittard
Denis Ward HB Bob Grant
Bill Hamilton PR Jim Morgan
Fred Jones HK Elwyn Walters
Norm Pounder PR John O'Neill
David Knox SR John Sattler (c)
John Morgan SR Bob Moses
Bill Bradstreet LK Ron Coote
Sid Williams Reserve Paul Sait
Ron Willey Coach Clive Churchill

Manly were making their fourth ever Grand Final appearance and still looking for their first title. 21-year-old captain Bob Fulton lead a young Sea Eagles side, while Souths were skippered by John Sattler who that season had been honoured as "Catholic Sportsman of the Year". Neither team lineup had any players older than 29 years of age. The depth of the Souths' line-up was indicated by the fact that their stars Kevin Longbottom, Bob McCarthy and Ray Branighan all were named and played in the Rabbitohs' reserve grade side which ominously won its grand final match-up also against Manly.

The first-grade match began furiously with the toughening-up period resulting in four cautions by referee Pearce in the first four minutes. Ron Coote clashed with Bill Bradstreet and the opposing giants Hamilton and John O'Neill also measured up. Souths, with a strong breeze at their backs, were the first to score when Michael Cleary intercepted a pass meant for Manly winger Les Hanigan and raced 80 yards to score. Simms punished Manly with a conversion and three successful penalty goals in the first half and at the break Souths led 11-2.

The Sea Eagles refused to lay down and mid-way through the second half second-rower John Morgan crashed over for a try and which was converted by Bob Batty. Then a Bob Fulton field goal with fourteen minutes left brought Manly within reach. But despite the Manly fightback Souths were too resilient and hung on to win their second successive premiership and the club's 18th title.

South Sydney 13 (Tries: Cleary. Goals: Simms 5.)

Manly-Warringah 9 (Tries: Morgan. Goals: Batty 2. Fld Goals: Fulton 1.)

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