1. Albert Aaron Rosenfeld was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer, a national representative whose club career was played in Sydney and in England.
14 Facts About Albert Rosenfeld
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Albert Rosenfeld played for New South Wales in the first rugby league match run by the newly created 'New South Wales Rugby Football League' which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union.
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Albert Rosenfeld made his Test debut in Australia's first ever international series against New Zealand in 1908 where he appeared in all three matches.
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Whilst on tour Albert Rosenfeld signed with English club Huddersfield after falling in love with Ethel a local mill manager's daughter whom he later married.
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Albert Rosenfeld was moved to the wing position by his new club and became a try scoring sensation.
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Albert Rosenfeld enlisted in the British Army in 1916 and saw service in the Mesopotamian campaign.
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Albert Rosenfeld played rugby league until he was thirty-nine and then, still married to Ethel, he lived out his life in Huddersfield, He worked variously as a van driver and in a local dye house.
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Aged 85 years, Albert Rosenfeld was the last of the inaugural Kangaroo Tourists to die.
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Albert Rosenfeld was taken to St Luke's Hospital, Bradford, with a suspected fractured skull but died 10 days later, on 16 July 1946.
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Albert Rosenfeld's try scoring feats earned him in 1988 a place in the British Rugby League Hall of Fame.
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In 2005, Albert Rosenfeld was accepted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame with his official induction to take place at the 2009 Maccabiah games.
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Albert Rosenfeld is one of only two rugby league players to be so honoured.
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Albert Rosenfeld was awarded Life Membership of the New South Wales Rugby League in 1914.
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In February 2008, Albert Rosenfeld was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.