Ian Robson
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| Full name | Ian Bruce Robson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 October 1947 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Second-row | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ian Bruce Robson (born 28 October 1947) is an Australian former rugby league player.
A rangy second-rower, Robson was a strong runner with the ball and began his career in Ipswich, before arriving at Brisbane club Wests aged 20. He had a stint in England with the Warrington Wolves in 1968.[1]
Robson gained Queensland representative honours in 1969 and toured New Zealand that year with the national team, where he was kept out of the Test line-up by Ron Costello, Bob McCarthy and Col Weiss.[2] He was forced to retire the age of 25 due to injuries and later competed in equestrian events.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Warrington's Aussie Bid". Liverpool Echo. 12 October 1968.
- ^ "The New Men". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 May 1969.
- ^ "Love of the Game: Former football star Ian Robson takes on equestrian". The Courier-Mail. 14 August 2014.
External links
[edit]- Ian Robson at Rugby League Project
Categories:
- 1947 births
- Living people
- Australian rugby league players
- Australia national rugby league team players
- Queensland rugby league team players
- Wests Panthers players
- Warrington Wolves players
- Australian expatriate rugby league players in England
- Rugby league second-rows
- Rugby league players from Queensland
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen