Playing Career
From 1970, Bennett played football for Warwick, and also in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership for Past Brothers, Ipswich and Souths. He was a talented winger and goal-kicker and represented Queensland 9 times between 1971 and 1973 (7 times against New South Wales). Bennett also played two tour matches for Australia on the 1972 tour of New Zealand. Also in 1972 Bennett played for Toowoomba in the last ever Bulimba Cup final against Brisbane. After that he had a spell playing for Huddersfield in England alongside fellow Queenslander and future brother-in-law Greg Vievers. He played for Brisbane's Brothers club and in 1974 under coach Paul Broughton reached the Grand Final which they lost to Fortitude Valley.
Read more about this topic: Wayne Bennett (rugby League)
Famous quotes containing the words playing and/or career:
“Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly
different from myself,
On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)