- Rod O'Loan
Rod O'loan (
South Australia ) was anAustralia nrugby league footballer for the Eastern Suburbs club in theNew South Wales Rugby Football League premiership .O'loan was originally from South Australia before moving to the
New South Wales township of Newcastle. In 1933 O'Loan moved toSydney were he joined and spent two seasons playing for the University rugby league club. In 1935 he and University team mate,Ross McKinnon , joined the Eastern Suburbs club where he appeared in 82 matches in the years (1935-41). In a match between Eastern Suburbs and his old club University in 1935 he scored a club record seventries in a 61-5 win. This tally stood second (behindFrank Burge 's eight tries in 1920) on the list of most individual tries in a premiership match. He scored 27 tries that season. O'Loan was a speedy winger who scored over 100 tries in his career. He won fourPremiership s in his time at the Tri colours: 1935, 1937, 1037 and 1940.References
* cite book | last=Whiticker, Alan and Hudson, Glen |title=The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players |year=2007
publisher="Gary Allen Pty Ltd" |location=Wetherill Park, New South Wales |isbn=9781877082931 |pages=609
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