- Bob Landers
Bob Landers was a
rugby league player inAustralia ’sNew South Wales Rugby League competition for the Eastern Suburbs and thePenrith Panthers clubs.Biography
A long striding winger, Landers played with the Eastern Suburbs club from (1959-1965) and played in the Roosters 1960 grand final loss to St George.
A former student of
Sydney ’s St Josephs’ college, Landers headed the NSWRL’s point scoring lists in the 1960 and 1961 seasons. In 1959, Landers first season at the Eastern Suburbs club, he was selected to representNSW .After leaving Easts at the end of the 1965 season Landers joined English club Leeds before returning to Australia where he played with Penrith in their first season in the NSWRL. Landers has recently been named as a winger in Penrith's 'Greatest Team' since its inception in 1967. While playing football, Landers also served in the
New South Wales Police Force and in 2008, rugby league's centennary year in Australia, he was named on the wing in a NSW Police team of the century. Landers died in 1996.References
* Encyclopedia Of Rugby League Players (Alan Whiticker and Glen Hudson)
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