Bruce Olive
Australian rugby league player
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Born | (1930-08-28) 28 August 1930 (age 93) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Prop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruce Olive (born 28 August 1930) is a former Indigenous Australian professional rugby league player who played as a prop forward for the Newtown Jets in the 1960s.
Wollongong prop played for New South Wales in nine matches between 1958-62 but could not break into the Australian Test side. Olive, who paved the way for Country’s upset wins over City in 1961-62, later played with Newtown in the mid-1960s.[2][3]
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Illawarra Rugby League Team of the Century (1911–2010)
- 1. Graeme Langlands
- 2. Ian Moir
- 3. Harry Wells Jr.
- 4. Paul McGregor
- 5. Rod Wishart
- 6. Bob Fulton
- 7. Trent Barrett
- 8. Craig Young
- 9. Kevin Schubert
- 10. Steve Roach
- 11. Ron Costello
- 12. Craig Fitzgibbon
- 13. Noel Mulligan
- Reserves
- 14. John Dorahy
- 15. Shaun Timmins
- 16. Bruce Olive
- 17. Ben Creagh
- Coach: Harry Nolan
- Referee: Alf Grew