George Lovejoy
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George Lovejoy was an Australia
n radio sports commentator who is known for his broadcasts of Queensland rugby league football matches in the 1950s and 60s. He called rugby league for 19 years - 652 games straight - and coined the phrase 'the greatest game of all
'.
Nicknamed "Mr Football", Lovejoy worked for the 4BH
station and was a household name in Queensland in the days before television was widespread. A plaque commemorating his career adorns Suncorp Stadium
's Sports Media Hall of Fame.
The Australian Society of Sports History's annual George Lovejoy Memorial lecture is named after him and was inaugurated in 2009. Delivered in Brisbane, it is in the same mould as New South Wales' Tom Brock Lecture
.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n radio sports commentator who is known for his broadcasts of Queensland rugby league football matches in the 1950s and 60s. He called rugby league for 19 years - 652 games straight - and coined the phrase 'the greatest game of all
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
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Nicknamed "Mr Football", Lovejoy worked for the 4BH
4BH
4BH is a radio station in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. Its analogue broadcast frequency is 882 KHz AM and markets itself for the baby boomer market. 4BH also broadcasts in digital using the dab+ format on the Brisbane 2 DAB ensemble channel 9B 204.640 MHz...
station and was a household name in Queensland in the days before television was widespread. A plaque commemorating his career adorns Suncorp Stadium
Suncorp Stadium
Lang Park is the original name of the site located in the Brisbane suburb of Milton, Queensland, Australia, now occupied by the major sports facility known by its sponsorship name, Suncorp Stadium...
's Sports Media Hall of Fame.
The Australian Society of Sports History's annual George Lovejoy Memorial lecture is named after him and was inaugurated in 2009. Delivered in Brisbane, it is in the same mould as New South Wales' Tom Brock Lecture
Tom Brock Lecture
The Tom Brock Lecture is an annual scholarly lecture organised by the Australian Society for Sports History under the bequest of Australian sports historian Tom Brock. The topic of the lecture is the history of rugby league football...
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