Rugby league club Eastern Suburbs first match
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Premiership Round 1, 20th of April 1908. The opening round of the New South Wales Rugby League's competition consisted of two double headers, the match involving Eastern Suburbs was played at the Wentworth Park ground at 2pm on a Monday of the Easter weekend.
Eastern Suburbs 32(4 Johnno Stuntz, + 4 Tries ; 4 Goals) defeated Newtown 16 Jack Scott , H. Hamill , + 2 Tries ; 2 Goals) at the Wentworth Park Ground. The referee for the match was E. Hooper, the crowd figure was 3000.
Newspaper reports of the match were enthusiastic with one journalist describing the match as, “A capital display considering that the contestants have as yet only a fair acquaintance with the rules.”. Another, 'The Sydney Mail' described it as “The best game of the day".
Newtown three-quarter Jack Scott had the honour of scoring the first ever try in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership when he took an intercept early in the match.
The line-ups that day were:- Eastern Suburbs {W Fry; Johnno Stuntz, W Smith(replaced by Horrie Miller), D Brown, D Frawley; Albert Rosenfeld, Lou D'Alpugent; Bob Mable, Larry O'Malley, Lou Jones , Herb Brackenreg, Sandy Pearce, Jersey Flegg(c)}. Newtown {E Hurlford, Jack Scott, C Meredith, F Cheadle, L Fairburn; E Burdett, J MacFarlane; T McIntosh, E Courtney, J Williams, H Hamill, B Noble, C Powell}.
