Posted by... quigs eraofthebiff - on ... Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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Derek Marsden
St Helens
UK
St Helens
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Dougie
Greenall, St. Helens and Great Britain Centre...Great
character off the field, his party piece was a take
off of Al
Jolson...
The story begins with the Clive Churchill Tour of 1952...When
they came to
play the Saints, Sept 1952, Dougie played with his fore-arm
strapped,and the
Saints licked the Aussies 26-8( the only club side to
beat them)
Dougie
went through the entire side, and one of the Aussies
was interviewed by the
local press and observed all we heard from the crowd
was 'Give 'em Mammy
Dougie' and we soon found out what this meant...
He then toured Australia in 1954, and hordes of Aussie
press were at Sydney Airport to see the man who had
wiped the floor with the big brave Aussies....expecting
to see someone
resembling Big Jim Mills, they were astounded to see
a less than 12 Stone
weakling...that was Dougie...still alive and kicking.
ADDITIONAL
STORY ABOUT DOUGIE SENT TO THE ERA BY JACK, ST HELENS
ON THE 13/04/05 |
1954 England -v- New South Wales
Game Abandoned
The story of the England - NSW brawl in 1954 was so
big that it made the front page of all major Sunday papers.
This is how the Sun Herald showed the notorious day. From
left to right, H Wells Aus, Touch Judge, D Greenall UK,
Ref Oxford, Noel Pidding, J Henderson, A Burnell and Clive
Churchill.
Read more in Memorable
matches No 3
Visit Clive Churchill's page in the Hardmen and Heroes List.
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Comment from from Albert Lister, Warrington,England
club supported - Warrington WolvesAlbert Lister
On the field doug was as hard as nails always
hitting anything that moves. He toured with G.B Now Doug well into his 70,s
can only talk about the as he calls it great days of rugby and if he
comes into the supermarket where I work you can bet I get into trouble
for talking to long to this great rugby man.
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