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Full name | Nigel Kevin Watts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Enmore, New South Wales, Australia | 21 October 1919||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 17 February 1995 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | (aged 75)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Centre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: [1] As of 7 August 2019 |
Nigel Kevin Watts (21 October 1919 – February 17, 1995) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s.[2]
Watts was a schoolboy rugby union start from St. Josephs College, who went on to star for the Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union club before embarking on a brief rugby league career at St. George during World War II.[3] As he had never played Rugby League before, the residential-rule did not apply to Watts, who was a resident of Bondi at the time. Watts was in the Australian Army during his time at the Saints,[4] although after he was discharged from the Army, he moved to a captain/coach role in the Illawarra competition in 1946. He represented a combined South Coast Division representative team that defeated the touring Great Britain national rugby league team 15–12 at Wollongong, New South Wales on 2 June 1946.[5]
Watts died in Sydney on 17 February 1995[6]