Kelvin Joseph "Kel" O'Shea was an Australian representative rugby league footballer, a second-rower from Queensland whose club career was played with the Western Suburbs Magpies in Sydney.
11 Facts About Kel O'Shea
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Kel O'Shea is rated among the nation's best players of the 20th century.
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Kel O'Shea played in three of the Magpies' four Grand final losses to StGeorge: 1958; 1961 and 1963.
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Kel O'Shea left Wests for Newcastle at the end of 1963 and came out of retirement in 1965 to captain-coach Maitland in 1965.
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Kel O'Shea debuted for Australia in 1954 called into the forward pack to partner Norm Provan against the touring British Lions.
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Kel O'Shea first represented for New South Wales in 1956 after moving to Wests.
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Kel O'Shea played against Great Britain in the 1954 World Cup campaign and in 1957 was a member of Australia's victorious World Cup squad.
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All up Kel O'Shea made fifteen Test and five World Cup appearances for his country.
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In 2004, Kel O'Shea was named at second-row in the Western Suburbs Magpies team of the century.
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In 2007, Kel O'Shea was selected by a panel of experts at second-row in an Australian 'Team of the 50s'.
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In February 2008, Kel O'Shea 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.