Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Born
- Saturday, 15th January, 1938
- Current Age
- 88 years and 77 days
- Place Of Birth
- La Perouse, New South Wales, Australia
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 | Riverina | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Representative Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate Series | - | 4 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| City vs Country Firsts | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Country Carnival | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||||
| First Class | 6 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 33.33% | List | |||||
Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Riverina | 1959 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Probables (AU) | 1959 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Country Firsts | 1959 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Country Seconds | 1960 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Firsts | 1960 | 4 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1959-1960 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.44% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Andrew Ferguson, Greg Fiveash, Paul Carter, Shawn Dollin, Tim Costello
Your Say
9 Aug 2012 12:13pm
Cann represented Australia in the Decathlon.At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.He finished Tenth.He scored 6,278 points.
26 Dec 2016 4:19pm
john cann is not recognised for his many talents,olympic decathlete,nature lover,snake man,very good rugby lead player,turtle man,also spent time in many parts of australia,surely he should be on wikipedea !
1 Aug 2019 3:14pm
I met John when relieving in a bank st Tumbarumba in 1960, he was
there playing rugby league and we stayed at the same hotel.
I rember him on occasions clearing the bar with his snakes. A nice young bloke about my age but someone I looked up to.
5 Jan 2026 12:19am
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