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Post by Electric Eel on May 30, 2020 19:48:56 GMT 10
 Arthur Beetson Full name Arthur Henry Beetson Born 21 January 1945 Roma, Queensland, Australia Died 1 December 2011 (aged 66) Paradise Point, Queensland, Australia Parramatta 1979 - 1980 Games - 16 Wikipedia |
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Post by Electric Eel on May 30, 2020 19:49:15 GMT 10
League great Beetson suffers heart attack while exercising
The Courier-Mail December 01, 2011 10:22AM
QUEENSLAND rugby league legend Arthur Beetson has suffered a heart attack and died on the Gold Coast.
Witnesses say Beetson, 66, suffered severe chest pains while riding his bike at Paradise Point about 9.15am.
Ambulance officers worked to revive him at the corner of Plover and Paradise Parade, but were unsuccessful.
The 66-year-old was Queensland's first State of Origin captain in 1980, and coached the Maroons to series wins from 1982, 83, 84 and 89.
He was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame in 2003.
In February 2008, Beetson was named in a list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908-2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.
Beetson went on to be named in the front-row in Australian rugby league's Team of the Century.
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Post by Electric Eel on May 30, 2020 19:49:37 GMT 10
By John Laws
June 7, 1979
The crowd at Belmore Sports Ground last Sunday cheered when they heard Arthur Beetson had his jaw broken in two places.
"The cheering was the most sickening sound I've heard in all my years in the game," Manly secretary Ken Arthurson said.
Arthurson, like members of my staff, was at Belmore for the Manly-Canterbury match.
"I wanted to bring up when I heard that crowd cheer at the news that Beetson had broken his jaw," Arthurson said.
"I would never want to win a game that badly."
The ground announcer was telling the Belmore fans about the misfortune Beetson had suffered playing for Parramatta against Easts at Cumberland Oval.
Are today's Rugby League crowd's throwbacks to the old Colosseum mobs?
Are they waiting for the Christians to be thrown to the lions? And aren't the administrators to blame for the conduct of some Rugby League crowds?
The announcement of Beetson's misfortune apparently thrilled a section of the Belmore crowd.
It's disgusting that any Australians derive pleasure from any player's injury, let alone Beetson's.
Beetson has given a lot to this game. He deserves its richest accolades.
For anybody, let alone the hundreds that did last Sunday, to cheer that he had broken his jaw makes me wonder what some Australians are made of.
I could hear the roar of the crowd in the television replay but I've been told it was triple the volume at the ground.
I just wonder what sort of person would go along to a sporting event and get some enjoyment out of a serious injury to one of the game's all-time greats?
They must be sick?
Maybe that might be the problem. Maybe some sections of our footballing crowds are mentally unfit.
I am not for one moment suggesting all the people who cheered at the news were Canterbury fans; the people who cheered were at the Canterbury-Manly game.
Perhaps the game has been allowed to get so out of control that it is rubbing off on their fans.
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Post by Electric Eel on May 30, 2020 19:50:05 GMT 10
Arthur Henry "Artie" Beetson OAM (21 January 1945 – 1 December 2011) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He represented Australia and Queensland from 1964 to 1981. His main position was at prop. Beetson became the first Indigenous Australian to captain his country in any sport and is frequently cited as the best post-war forward in Australian rugby league history. He also had an extensive coaching career, spanning the 1970s to the 1990s, coaching Australia, Queensland, Eastern Suburbs, Redcliffe Dolphins and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.
He is also remembered as man of great humility who cared deeply about his people and culture. The Arthur Beetson Foundation was so named to honour Beetson, and the Arthur Beetson Medal is awarded to rugby league players who show both outstanding skills and similar personal qualities to Beetson.
Playing career
Beetson joined the Parramatta Eels in 1979.
1980s
While still playing in Sydney for Parramatta, Beetson achieved further immortality as captain of Queensland in the inaugural 1980 State of Origin game, won 20–10 by Queensland on 8 July. He capped off that year with a man of the match performance in the Eels' 8-5 Tooth Cup Final win over Balmain. Beetson returned to Queensland for one final year of playing with his old Redcliffe team in 1981.
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