League Legends "Mark Harris" is on Fox at 630 today

[bondi paul]

Im pretty sure Harris broke his leg too . Did it in the Manly final .In certain he done it early in the second half and played on with it .I can remember agame Harris first time Captained It was against Parra .Parra kicked out on the full at the start of the game and Harris with the penalty elects to kick at goal from the halfway line him self ..He got it but one flag up amd one down so ref didnt give it .....but he kicked clear right out of cumberland oval ..the way it wet looked like it travelled 50m past the posts.

backing you up here brainiac.- mark did bust his leg as well as fairy.

[Mickie Lane]

Im pretty sure Harris broke his leg too . Did it in the Manly final .In certain he done it early in the second half and played on with it .I can remember agame Harris first time Captained It was against Parra .Parra kicked out on the full at the start of the game and Harris with the penalty elects to kick at goal from the halfway line him self ..He got it but one flag up amd one down so ref didnt give it .....but he kicked clear right out of cumberland oval ..the way it wet looked like it travelled 50m past the posts.

It allowed John Rheinberger to play his one & only 1st grade game in the 1975 Grand Final which we all know was won by the MIGHTY ROOSTERS 38-0. Still the biggest score line win in a GF. Tries were only worth 3 points.
And I would have to say that day is the greatest day in the ESRLFC history & I was there as a 9 year old & I can still remember it.


Big bloke in his day.

[Spirit of 66]

Im pretty sure Harris broke his leg too . Did it in the Manly final .In certain he done it early in the second half and played on with it .I can remember agame Harris first time Captained It was against Parra .Parra kicked out on the full at the start of the game and Harris with the penalty elects to kick at goal from the halfway line him self ..He got it but one flag up amd one down so ref didnt give it .....but he kicked clear right out of cumberland oval ..the way it wet looked like it travelled 50m past the posts.

He was not a very accurate kicker, but you're right he could toe-poke out of the ground.

[eddie]

Broken legs legs to both Fairfax and Harris then.
Good thing we didn't need them in the end.

Langlands made Bruce Pickett look like Usain Bolt.

[player 1]

Broken legs legs to both Fairfax and Harris then.
Good thing we didn't need them in the end.

Langlands made Bruce Pickett look like Usain Bolt.

Bruce would have outrun a fit Langlands and just about anybody in fact.

The misplaced local anaesthetic injection into Changa's groin gave him an incomplete femoral nerve block, paralysing his quad muscles in his thigh. Looking back, it was a pitiful sight watching the poor bugger struggle on. The doctor responsible should have insisted he was hooked when it was obvious he was crippled.

One of the most infamous sporting medical blunders in history.

[Waylander]

He was not a very accurate kicker, but you're right he could toe-poke out of the ground.

I remember him doing a 75 yard line drop out in an Amco Cup game. He followed the kick all the way and hammered the bloke who caught it. Amazing stuff.

[Mickie Lane]

His Gridiron football career


Harris turned down a place on the 1973 Kangaroo tour to trial with an American football team, the Philadelphia Eagles. After failing to get a contract, Harris played Canadian football for the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League. Harris played 7 matches as a long range kickoff specialist during the 1973 CFL season.

[The Brain]

Bruce would have outrun a fit Langlands and just about anybody in fact.

The misplaced local anaesthetic injection into Changa's groin gave him an incomplete femoral nerve block, paralysing his quad muscles in his thigh. Looking back, it was a pitiful sight watching the poor bugger struggle on. The doctor responsible should have insisted he was hooked when it was obvious he was crippled.

One of the most infamous sporting medical blunders in history.

It was a shame because rooster or not chang was a great player if not one of the best.

[eddie]

Bruce would have outrun a fit Langlands and just about anybody in fact.
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That's true.
Yet if the team was at full strength he probably would've missed that game.

[Maxy Walker]

I remember one day in the 70s when Mark Harris turned up at Henson Park versus Newtown in full gridiron outfit, helmet and shoulder pads and all, and scored a length of the field try head butting anyone in his way with the helmet. Then he sculled a can of KB in the in goal area. What a player.

[4 the all in brawl]

I remember one day in the 70s when Mark Harris turned up at Henson Park versus Newtown in full gridiron outfit, helmet and shoulder pads and all, and scored a length of the field try head butting anyone in his way with the helmet. Then he sculled a can of KB in the in goal area. What a player.

And you went up to him and said don't forget your Aerogard and aveagoodweekend!

[Mickie Lane]

I remember one day in the 70s when Mark Harris turned up at Henson Park versus Newtown in full gridiron outfit, helmet and shoulder pads and all, and scored a length of the field try head butting anyone in his way with the helmet. Then he sculled a can of KB in the in goal area. What a player.

I need a couple of things cleared up here.
I know the game was pretty tough back in the day but head butting the opposition with a helmet on whilst scoring a length of the field try doesnt sound quite right.
Where did he have his can of VB when he was scoring this length of the field try head butting anyone in his way?

I think you might of been on the magic mushies that day Maxy because Im sure the ref would have thought to himself that something wasnt right when he looked across & saw a bloke out there in a full gridiron outfit that didnt match the Roosters outfit.

[Mickie Lane]

And you went up to him and said don't forget your Aerogard and aveagoodweekend!

What a ripper.

[Tommy Smith]

Just saw some highlights.

Speed, power, footwork... what a weapon! Way ahead of his time.

[bondi paul]

Harris was great and when he had his overseas jaunt or out of favour with Gibbo or Brass was injured - special mention to Harry Cameron who was also a very very good centre.