Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Peter Anthony Jones
- Born
- Saturday, 15th August, 1942
- Current Age
- 83 years and 227 days
- Place Of Birth
- Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- Interstate Series
- 1965
- City vs Country Firsts
- 1966
- Preseason Cup
- 1967
Biography
Randwick RU centre made a sensational Australian Test debut against England as a 20-year-old in 1963 before touring South Africa with the Wallabies. Jones switched codes to play with Balmain in the mid 1960s but, after representing NSW in 1965, chose to sit out much of the 1969 season (along with Dennis Tutty and Laurie Moraschi) in protest of the NSWRL's transfer system. Jones missed the Tigers’ grand final win over Souths that year and although he returned briefly in 1970 his playing career had all but finished.
- ALAN WHITICKER
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 | Balmain Tigers | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Representative Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate Series | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| City vs Country Firsts | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Club Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | - | 75 | 10 | - | - | 30 | 44 | 30 | 1 | 58.67% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Finals | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 0 | 40.00% | List | ||||
| Preseason Cup | 1 | 10 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 4 | 1 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||||
| First Class | 88 | 11 | - | - | 33 | 54 | 37 | 2 | 61.36% | List | |||||
Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| NSW Firsts | 1965 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW City Firsts | 1966 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW City Seconds | 1967 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1965-1967 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75.00% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1964 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1965 | 11 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.64% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1966 | 16 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 68.75% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1967 | 19 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 52.63% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1968 | 16 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 56.25% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1970 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.00% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Balmain | 1964-68, 1970 | 75 | 10 | - | - | 30 | 44 | 30 | 1 | 58.67% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Greg Fiveash, Rugby League Tables, Paul Carter, Tony McCarron, Shawn Dollin, Alan Katzmann, Andrew Ferguson, Max Turner, Tim Costello
Your Say
27 Nov 2020 9:58pm
Selected to play five eighth for NSW in 1965, Jones would have been an automatic selection for an Australian Rugby League team if there had been one selected that year and therefore become a dual international in Rugby Union and Rugby League. However, quite inexplicably, there was no international series played that year.
The following year, 1966, Jones broke his thumb playing five eight for City Firsts, which put him out of contention for the state games and the international series against the touring Great Britain side again denying him a more than probable chance of achieving dual international honors. His team mate Arthur Beetson made his debut for Australia against Great Britain in the third test that year.
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