Phil Hawthorne represented the Wallabies in twenty-one Tests and the Kangaroos in three Tests.
11 Facts About Phil Hawthorne
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Phil Hawthorne captained Australia in rugby league the 3rd Test of the 1970 Ashes series.
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Phil Hawthorne's mother was killed in a car accident in Newcastle when he was 14.
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In 1968 Phil Hawthorne accepted a then record $30,000 contract to switch to the professional code and join the St George Dragons.
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Phil Hawthorne played fifty-six games for the Dragons from 1968 to 1971 at Five-eighth before he joined Eastern Suburbs for his final season in 1972.
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Phil Hawthorne played all three Tests against Great Britain in 1970 and was captain in the 3rd Test with Langlands and Sattler injured and unavailable.
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Phil Hawthorne is named on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No 441.
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Phil Hawthorne left the club at the end of that year to join the Eastern Suburbs Roosters but spent much of the 1972 season in reserve grade behind the competition's eventual player of the year, his former Wallaby teammate John Ballesty.
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Phil Hawthorne moved to Coffs Harbour in 1973 and captain-coached a local side.
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Phil Hawthorne was diagnosed with leukaemia in 1991, and died in September 1994, at the age of 50.
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Phil Hawthorne is remembered as a field-goal specialist with notable statistics including:.