Bob Cooper (rugby league)

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Bob Cooper
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Personal information
Full nameRobert Cooper
Born (1955-08-31) 31 August 1955 (age 66)
Playing information
Height196 cm (6 ft 5 in)
PositionSecond-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1977–82 Wests Magpies 76 14 0 0 42
1984 North Sydney Bears 4 0 0 0 0
Total 80 14 0 0 42
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1980 New South Wales 1 0 0 0 0
Source: [1][2]

Bob Cooper is an Australian former professional footballer. He played rugby league in the New South Wales Rugby League. In 1982, Cooper was suspended for the equal-longest period in rugby league history.

Cooper played rugby league for Western Suburbs Magpies and North Sydney Bears and, in 1980, was selected in the New South Wales team for the inaugural game in the State of Origin.[3] He played primarily in the back row. Cooper was named in the Western Suburbs Magpies Team of the Eighties, in the second-row.[4]

In 1982, Cooper was suspended for the equal-longest period in rugby league history, of fifteen months, after he ran in to join a brawl and left three Illawarra Steelers players flattened during a match at Wollongong showground. When imposing the suspension, the NSW Rugby League judiciary chairman, Jim Comans said, "Acts such as these must be obliterated from the game, and I'll begin by obliterating you." [5]

In 1983, Cooper played Australian rules football with St George in the Sydney Football League and won the reserve competition's best and fairest award.[6]

In 1984, Cooper returned to the NSW Rugby League with North Sydney but, after only four games, he dislocated his shoulder and retired from football.

References[]

  1. ^ Rugby League Project
  2. ^ Yesterday's Hero
  3. ^ "State Of Origin - Game 1, 1980". Rugby League Tables. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2007.
  4. ^ "VEST, KEATO, COGGER ALL HONOURED". weststigers.com.au. Archived from the original on 27 February 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  5. ^ "No such thing as a free punch". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 August 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2007.
  6. ^ Mack, John (4 December 1983). "Cooper kicks off with a new outlook". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 47. Retrieved 24 June 2015.


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