Dragons mourn loss of club great at age 85

The Dragons are mourning the decease of another subordinate of their grounds breaking team of the 1950s and '60s - pugnacious Englishman Dick Huddart.

A erstwhile coalminer who won premierships successful some Britain and Australia, Huddart died earlier this week successful his Sydney home. He was 85.

The hard-running inferior guardant played implicit 200 games for St Helens and 16 Tests for Great Britain earlier moving to the Dragons successful 1964.

St George paid St Helens a transportation interest of implicit 12,000 pounds for his services - a monolithic magnitude astatine that time.

Dick Huddart successful enactment for England successful 1962. (Fairfax Media)

Huddart instantly slotted into the champion Dragons nine that won 11 consecutive premierships, staying 5 seasons from 1964 to 1968 earlier returning to England with Whitehaven.

Despite a bid of injuries, helium starred for the nine and connected his day, was arsenic bully arsenic immoderate guardant successful the aged Sydney competition.

His lad Milton had a play with the Canberra Raiders successful 1986.

Dragons players are acceptable to deterioration achromatic armbands this play arsenic a people of respect to 1 of the stars of their aureate era.

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