Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Born
- Tuesday, 24th January, 1939
- Died
- 2025
- Place Of Birth
- Zimbabwe
Biography
Champion Rhodesian RU winger joined Wigan in 1962 and was the top try-scorer in English club football tries in 1964-65 with 40. Lake went on to score 123 tries in three seasons before coming to St George in the mid-1960s. Although the move was not a success, he was one of the prime movers behind the formation of the SARL and visited Australia in an official capacity when South Africa was included in the 1992 World Sevens competition.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Additional Notes
Passed away in early 2025.
Playing Career Statistics
All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.
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| Tour Matches | Wigan Warriors | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Club Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | - | 8 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 62.50% | List | ||||
| Preseason Cup | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||||
| First Class | 14 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 57.14% | List | |||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| St George | NSWRFL 1967 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 60.00% | List | ||||
| St George | NSWRFL 1968 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 66.67% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| St George | 1967-68 | 8 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 62.50% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Max Turner, Greg Fiveash, Rugby League Tables, Andrew Ferguson, Tony McCarron, Shawn Dollin, Alan Katzmann
Your Say
7 May 2012 5:14pm
Fine, long-rank goal kicker. In a game for Wigan, he once place-kicked a goal from 10m inside his own half (60m)!
13 Jun 2014 10:23pm
It is unfortunate for Australian rugby League fans to have not seen more of this player as his time in Australia was fraught with a knee injury and operation that saw him play barely a handful of games over 2 or 3 seasons.
31 Jan 2016 9:24am
He used to be my hero when I used to watch him at Wigan
31 Oct 2018 8:03am
Came with a player John winton to play for Wigan had a car show room in Prescott st Wigan
8 Dec 2020 1:49am
Trevor Lake did not kick goals. I think you are confusing him with Len Killeen, who played for St. Helens around the same time and was an excellent goalkicker.
21 Dec 2020 2:32am
Loved watching him when I was 8 or 9, at Wigan. Him and Billy Boston stood out for me.
14 Dec 2023 1:45am
Saw Trevor Lake, playing winger for St. George, score a try at Kogarah Oval in 1967. He took the ball on the burst and dived many metres from the tryline. It was a tryly great try from such a great winger. Piity his knee gave way but a true player and gentleman.
15 Feb 2025 6:27pm
Sadly Trevor Lake passed away on the 10 th of Feb 2025. I was privileged to have been a golfing friend of Trevor for many years.
An absolute legend and yet a very humble , down to earth person. RIP Trev
15 May 2025 8:10pm
I saw Trevor Lake score a try for St.George at Kogarah Oval. As it happened: Trevor a took the ball, with a slight overlap, and, as the oppposition ( it might have been Balmain) came across in covers; 10 metres out, Trevor dived and scored in the corner. I still have that beautiful memory...tryly (sic,) unforgettble...even in Heaven. After the game, I met Travor Lake, and Sid Williams who was assisting Trevor, whose knee was in bad shape. Gary O'Mara.
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