Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Benjamin Wearing
- Born
- Monday, 11th June, 1900
- Died
- Tuesday, 9th April, 1968 (Aged 67 years and 302 days)
- Place Of Birth
- Redfern, 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
- 1927
- NSWRFL Premiership (NRL)
- 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932
- City Cup
- 1921, 1924, 1925
Biography
The tragedy of great winger Benny Wearing's career was that while he was a record-maker at Souths, and the ‘people's champion’ in the Sydney premiership, he only made the one Test appearance. A great goal-kicker with a good short kicking game, Wearing played for NSW between 1924-28 and won seven premiership titles with Souths (1925-29 & 1931-32) but was constantly overlooked for Test duty. After the Australian Board of Control did not go ahead with the 1926-27 Kangaroo Tour Wearing was expected to be one of the first players selected in the Test series against England in 1928. He was not chosen for the first two Tests but he was just too good to leave out of the Third Test. Wearing scored the then individual points record (12pts - 2t, 3g) in Australia's only win of the series but was again omitted when the Kangaroos squad was selected the following year. He retired in 1933 with a club record 144 tries to his credit – a record that still stands.
- 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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| Representative Career - International | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests (Senior International Matches) | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| The Ashes | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Tour Matches | New South Wales Seconds | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | - | 21 | 17 | 37 | - | 125 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 47.62% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Australia | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Test Series | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Representative Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Interstate Series | 1 | 13 | 10 | 23 | - | 76 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.15% | List | ||||
| City vs Country Firsts | - | 2 | 2 | 7 | - | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Country Carnival | - | 4 | 3 | 6 | - | 21 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75.00% | List | ||||
| Club Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | 7 | 172 | 144 | 202 | - | 836 | 133 | 37 | 2 | 77.33% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Finals | - | 15 | 9 | 16 | - | 59 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 73.33% | List | ||||
| City Cup | 3 | 37 | 26 | 6 | - | 90 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 78.38% | List | ||||
| Overall | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||||
| First Class | 221 | 183 | 254 | - | 1057 | 193 | 67 | 4 | 87.33% | List | |||||
Test Matches - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Australia | 1928 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Australasia II | 1922 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Seconds | 1922 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Firsts | 1923-28, 1932 | 23 | 17 | 37 | - | 125 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 43.48% | List | ||||
| Metropolis | 1927 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW City Firsts | 1928, 1930 | 2 | 2 | 7 | - | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| NSW City Seconds | 1929 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Combined City | 1929 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1922-1932 | 30 | 24 | 48 | 0 | 168 | 14 | 16 | 0 | 46.67% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1921 | 7 | 9 | - | - | 27 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57.14% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1922 | 15 | 11 | 9 | - | 51 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 60.00% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1923 | 15 | 15 | 3 | - | 51 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 80.00% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1924 | 6 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 83.33% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1925 | 11 | 12 | 22 | - | 80 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1926 | 16 | 14 | 10 | - | 62 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 87.50% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1927 | 17 | 19 | 9 | - | 75 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 88.24% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1928 | 14 | 8 | 35 | - | 94 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.43% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1929 | 18 | 9 | 17 | - | 61 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 83.33% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1930 | 13 | 12 | 14 | - | 64 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.23% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1931 | 17 | 13 | 34 | - | 107 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 70.59% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1932 | 12 | 11 | 32 | - | 97 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.33% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1933 | 11 | 5 | 17 | - | 49 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.64% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| South Sydney | 1921-33 | 172 | 144 | 202 | - | 836 | 133 | 37 | 2 | 77.33% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Greg Fiveash, Max Turner, Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Rugby League Tables, Tony McCarron, Alan Katzmann, Paul Carter, Tim Costello
Your Say
26 May 2018 9:43am
a true legend rip benny
27 Aug 2025 7:32pm
My great uncle
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