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| Full name | Donald Hugh Manson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 July 1918 Randwick, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 May 1993(1993-05-13) (aged 74) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight | 14 st 2 lb (90 kg)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Donald Manson (29 July 1918-13 May 1993) was arugby league player who played forSouth Sydney on the wing from 1937 to 1939.[3]
He made his debut in round 1 of the1937 season againstUniversity.[3] In his first two matches he scored sixtries, the last player to accomplish such a feat tillCharlie Staines in2020.[4] By the start of the1938 season, he was considered to "be on the up and up".[5] He was the NSWRFL's leading try-scorer for the 1938 season, and that year he appeared for theNew South Wales Blues.[2]
During the 1939 season, Manson went on a tour to New Zealand as part of a side coached byRay Stehr. After his return, South Sydney did not name him in their line-up for either their first, reserves or third side, a decision which was considered surprising by theDaily News.[6] Manson played one further game in the South Sydney reserves, before subsequently leaving the club forEastern Suburbs at the season's end.[7] Manson retired from the NSWRFL after the 1941 season, and stopped playing league altogether for five years.[8] He has the second best strike rate in the history of the NRL/ARL/NSWRFL, averaging 1.13 tries per game.[9]
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