Tom Briggs (rugby league)
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Young, New South Wales
Penshurst, New South Wales, Australia
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| Full name | Thomas Henry Briggs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 July 1919 Young, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 March 1991 (aged 71) Penshurst, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tom Briggs (29 July 1919 – 4 March 1991) was an Australian rugby league footballer from the 1940s.
Tom Briggs was a very fine rugby league player from Young, New South Wales. He starred in Rugby League Army teams during World War Two including a match representing NSW against Queensland servicemen held on Bougainville[1] in which he was man of the match. After he returned from the war,[2] Briggs joined the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1946. Tom married in 1946 and moved to the St.George area at the end of the 1947 season.[3]
Tom Briggs had two brilliant seasons at the St. George Dragons in 1948 & 1949, scoring 16 tries from 17 games. Injuries towards the end of the 1949 season curtailed his career.
Tom Briggs died in Sydney on 4 Mar 1991, aged 71.
