Kevin Ryan

Club Appearances: 106

Club Debut Year: 1960

Club Final Year: 1966

Position: Second row/Prop

Club Points: 57

Club Tries: 19

Representative Honours:

  • NSW v Qld: 7
  • NSW v Int: 2
  • Australia: 2
Appearances breakdown:

  • St George: 106
Points breakdown:

  • St George: 57

Football career began in Ipswich, Queensland, from where he went on to play five rugby union Tests before switching codes in 1960. He was also a Queensland amateur boxing champion. Was part of seven winning Grand Final teams with St George, before switching to Canterbury, where as captain-coach he brought an end to Saints’ 11-year premiership reign in the 1967 preliminary final. Injuries prevented him from playing more than two league Tests. During his one Kangaroo tour (1963–64), he appeared in only four games after suffering a serious leg injury. He was picked for the first Test in 1966 but missed the entire series with a badly corked knee. Nicknamed ‘Kandos’, after the cement producing town in western NSW. Was universally regarded as the man of the match in the 1965 Grand Final and scored St George’s third try in the 1966 premiership decider.

Played a total of 106 games for St George