Greatest Rabbitohs vote results: No 50 to 31
DEBATE has raged in pubs, workplaces and on the footy field as we’ve had votes submitted from Souths fans from around the world. After four weeks and more than 1000 votes we can reveal the results of our reader voted search to find the greatest Rabbitoh of all time.
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AFTER four weeks and more than 1000 votes we can reveal the results of our search to find the greatest Rabbitoh of all time.
Debate has raged in pubs, workplaces and on the footy field as we’ve had votes submitted from Souths fans from around the world.
Today we reveal numbers 50 to 31.
Go to the Southern Courier website tomorrow to see numbers 30 to 21 before we count down 20 to 11 on Thursday.
On Friday we will reveal the top 10 culminating in the player you voted the greatest Souths player of all time.
THE GREATEST
So that’s your numbers 50 to 31. But how will the top 30 shape up? Where will the likes of Burgess, Churchill, Coote and Fenech place? Make sure you check out our website all this week.
50/ ARTHUR OXFORD
1915-21 (85 games, 18 tries, 119 goals)
Rest of NSW 1917 (1 game, 1 try, 4 goals), Rest of First Grade 1917 (1 game, 2 goals), Metropolis 1920 (1 game, 1 try, 2 goals), NSW 1919 (6 games, 14 goals), NSW Seconds 1921 (1 game, 3 goals), Australia 1919 (3 Tests, 6 goals)
49/ JIM DAVIS
1908-15 & 1918-19 (67 games, 12 tries, 19 goals)
Metropolis 1909 (1 game, 1 try, 1 goal), NSW 1908-12 (8 games, 5 goals), Kangaroos 1909-10 (4 games, 1 try), Australia 1908-09 (3 Tests and 6 tour games, 1 try, 1 goal)
48/ EDDIE ROOT
1923-29 & 1931-33 (112 games, 38 tries, 1 goal)
Metropolis 1923 & 1926-27 (3 games, 5 tries, 1 goal), City Firsts 1928-29 & 1932 (3 games, 2 tries), NSW 1927-29 & 1932 (15 games, 2 tries), Australia 1929 (0 Tests, 15 tour games, 3 tries)
47/ HARRY FINCH
1926-30 and 1933-34 (68 games, 39 tries, 3 goals)
Metropolis 1927 (1 game), City Firsts 1929 (1 game), NSW 1926-29 (9 games, 1 try), Australia 1929-30 (10 tour games, 16 tries, 18 goals)
46/ PERCY WILLIAMS
1931-35 and 1937-38 (80 games, 19 tries, 190 goals)
City Seconds 1932 (1 game, 2 goals), Metropolis 1932 (1 game, 1 goal), City 1932 (1 game, 3 goals), City Firsts 1933-34 & 1937-38 (4 games, 1 try, 16 goals), NSW 1932, 1934 & 1937 (11 games, 1 try, 11 goals), Australia 1937-38 (4 Tests, 14 tour games, 2 tries, 21 goals)
45/ FRANK CURRAN
1931-37 (73 games, 16 tries, 1 goal)
City Firsts 1933-37 (7 games, 3 tries), NSW 1933-36 (14 games, 3 tries), Australia 1933-38 (10 Tests and 27 tour games, 5 tries)
44/ ERIC LEWIS
1927-29 & 1932-37 (81 games, 23 tries, 1 goal)
City Firsts 1933-37 (7 games, 1 try), NSW 1935-37 (6 games, 1 try), Australia 1935-38 (9 Tests & 18 tour games, 3 tries)
43/ JACK WHY
1925-34 (80 games, 32 tries)
Metropolis 1930 (1 game), City Seconds 1930 (1 game), City Firsts 1933 (1 game), NSW 1930-33 (8 games, 1 try), Australia 1933 (2 Tests, 15 tour games, 8 tries).
42/ FRANK O’CONNOR
1927-37 (79 games, 14 tries)
Metropolis 1930 (1 game), City Seconds 1930 (1 game, 1 try), City Firsts 1931 & 1933-34 (3 games, 1 try), NSW 1930-34 (13 games, 1 try), Australia 1932-34 (4 Tests, 14 tour games, 7 tries)
41/ HOWARD HALLETT
1909-24 (158 games, 21 tries, 29 goals)
Metropolis 1910, 1912 & 1914 (3 games, 1 field goal), NSW 1909-14 (17 games, 4 tries, 2 goals), Kangaroos 1917 (1 game), Australia 1911-14 (6 Tests & 26 tour games, 13 tries, 1 goal)
40/ GREG HAWICK
1950-56 (81 games, 19 tries, 59 goals)
City Firsts 1955 (1 game, 2 tries, 5 goals), NSW 1953 (2 games, 1 goal), Australia 1952-54 (4 Tests & 2 World Cups & 14 tour games, 9 tries)
39/ BILLY CANN
1908-16 (74 games, 33 tries, 4 goals)
Metropolis 1912 (1 game), NSW 1908-13 (6 games, 8 tries, 9 goals), Kangaroos 1909-10, 1912 & 1917 (5 games), Australia 1908-12 (8 Tests & 16 tour games, 12 tries, 3 goals
38/ ALF O’CONNOR
1921-29 (84 games, 19 tries)
Metropolis 1922 (1 game, 1 try), Metropolis Seconds 1923 (2 games), City Seconds 1929 (1 game, 1 try), Combined City 1929 (1 game), NSW Seconds 1922 (1 game), NSW 1922-29 (13 games, 4 tries), Australia 1924 (3 Tests)
37/ ARTHUR BUTLER
1908-15 (102 games, 20 tries, 20 goals)
Metropolis 1911 & 1915 (3 games), City 1914 (1 game), NSW 1908-09 & 1911 (7 games, 2 tries), Kangaroos 1909-10 (6 games, 1 try, 9 goals), Australia 1908-09 (3 Tests, 21 tour games, 5 tries, 1 goal
36/ ERNIE HAMMERTON, OAM
1947-58 (157 games, 10 tries, 5 goals)
City Firsts 1951 (1 game), City 1952 (1 game), NSW 1951, 1953 & 1956 (6 games), Australia 1951-57 (1 Test & 11 tour games)
35/ JOHNNY GRAVES
1947-52 (77 games, 79 tries, 158 goals)
City Seconds 1948 & 1950 (2 games, 2 tries, 5 goals), City Firsts 1950 (1 game, 2 tries, 1 goal), NSW 1942-52 (10 games, 13 tries, 20 goals), Australia 1948-51 (8 Tests and 17 tour games, 17 tries, 30 goals)
34/ ALF BLAIR
1917-27 and 1929-30 (186 games, 39 tries, 139 goals)
Rest of NSW 1917 (1 game), Metropolis 1920 (1 game), NSW Seconds 1922 (1 game), NSW 1919, 1924 & 1927 (11 games, 6 tries, 6 goals), Australia 1924 (1 Test)
33/ IAN MOIR
1952-58 (110 games, 105 tries)
City Seconds 1952 (1 game, 4 tries), City 1952 (1 game), City Firsts 1953, 1956-57 & 1959 (4 games, 7 tries), NSW 1952-59 (10 games, 10 tries), Australia 1954-59 (20 Tests & World Cups, 15 tour games, 26 tries)
32/ DENIS PITTARD
1968-73 (121 games, 56 tries)
City Firsts 1969 & 1972 (2 games, 1 try), City Seconds 1970 (1 game), NSW 1969-72 (5 games, 4 tries), Australia 1969-70 (5 Tests & World Cup games, 4 tour games, 1 try)
31/ LES COWIE, OAM
1946-58 (176 games, 66 tries)
City Seconds 1947-48 and 1952 (3 games), City 1948 and 1952 (2 games, 1 try), City Firsts 1949, 1951, 1954 and 1956 (4 games, 2 tries), NSW 1948-54 (14 games, 2 tries), Australia 1948-53 (6 Tests and 17 tour games, 10 tries)