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| Born | (1917-09-18)18 September 1917[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 October 1985(1985-10-19) (aged 68)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Charlie Hazelton (1917–1985) was an Australianrugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. Astate andnational representative winger fromPort Kembla, New South Wales, Hazelton came to Sydney in 1939 to join theSt. George club in theNew South Wales Rugby League premiership competition.
A country player fromPort Kembla, Hazelton came to attention representingCountry in their 1937 win overCity.[4] He was selected on the wing in two matches of the 1937 interstate series forNew South Wales againstQueensland and scored two tries on debut. He was then selected for the1937-38 Kangaroo tour of New Zealand, Great Britain and France and played in a Test match againstNew Zealand. He figured in fifteen other tour matches of that tour.
Hazelton was signed to St George and came to Sydney in 1939. He scored seventeen tries in his top grade debut season of 1939 beforeWWII interrupted his career.[5] He signed up early in the conflict enlisting in June 1940 as a Lance-Bombardier in the 2/5 Field Regiment of theRoyal Australian Artillery. He was not discharged until the war's end.[6] He returned to play for Port Kembla after the war and made another appearance forCountry NSW in 1946.
Hazelton's death in 1985 occurred on the way home from watching aSt George Dragons vIllawarra Steelers match.
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