Bill Mahon
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| Full name | William Charles Edward Mahon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 July 1910 Dalby, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 8 September 1979 (aged 69) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Charles Edward Mahon (7 July 1910 – 8 September 1979)[1] was an Australian rugby league footballer.[2]
Biography
[edit]Mahon was born in Dalby and played his early rugby league in the town of Jandowae.[3]
A winger, Mahon made his interstate debut for Queensland in their 1933 interstate series against New South Wales and scored the winning try in the final fixture at The Gabba.[4] He was playing his rugby league in Toowoomba when he earned a Kangaroos call up for the 1935 tour of New Zealand, where he secured a hat–trick against a New Zealand XIII. His only capped appearance on tour came as a centre, in partnership with captain Dave Brown, for the first of the three international fixtures against New Zealand.[3]
Mahon became an agricultural auctioneer.[5]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Bill Mahon". Rugby League Project.
- ↑ "Making Good". The Dalby Herald. 18 April 1933. p. 2 – via National Library of Australia.
- 1 2 "Mahon's Transfer". The Telegraph. 21 June 1935. p. 32 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Plucky "Pud" Mahon Lands Last For Q'ld". The Truth. 18 June 1933. p. 5 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Furious Bidding". Queensland Country Life. 5 February 1948. p. 11 – via National Library of Australia.