Clive Churchill
Australian rugby league player and coach
Died when: 58 years 200 days (702 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Clive Bernard Churchill AM (21 January 1927 – 9 August 1985) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach in the mid-20th century.
An Australian international and New South Wales and Queensland interstate representative fullback, he played the majority of his club football with and later coached the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
He won five premierships with the club as a player and three more as coach.Retiring as the most capped Australian Kangaroos player ever, Churchill is thus considered one of the game's greatest ever players and the prestigious Clive Churchill Medal for man-of-the-match in the NRL grand final bears his name.
Churchill's attacking flair as a player is credited with having changed the role of the fullback.
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