George Treweek was an Australian rugby league

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...

 footballer of the 1920s and '30s. He was a towering second-row forward

Rugby league positions

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 for his time who formed an integral part of the champion South Sydney Rabbitohs

South Sydney Rabbitohs

The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...

 teams of the 1920s and early 1930s. He is rated as one of the finest second-row forwards ever to play for Australia.

Club career

Treweek won six premierships with South Sydney and captained the side in the 1931 and 1932 premiership victories. All up Treweek played 120 games for Souths between 1926 to 1934.

Representative career

He made 7 Test appearances for the Australian national representative side. His test debut was against the touring Great Britain team in 1928. He toured Great Britain with 1929–30 Kangaroo team playing in four tests and 22 games in all and scoring six tries. Treweek also played eighteen games for NSW.

Treweek retired quietly at the end of 1934. He never had the heart to tell the press of the day that they had spelled his name wrong throughout his entire career. The proper spelling of his surname is actually Treweeke and not Treweek though he graciously accepted Treweek throughout his life until his passing in 1991.

Accolades

In 2004 he was named by the Souths in their South Sydney Dream Team, consisting of 17 players and a coach representing the club from 1908

New South Wales Rugby League season 1908

The 1908 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the inaugural season of Australia's first rugby league football club competition, which was based in Sydney, New South Wales...

 through to 2004

National Rugby League season 2004

The year 2004 NRL season was the 97th season of professional rugby league football in Australia, and the seventh run by the National Rugby League. Fifteen clubs competed for the Telstra Premiership...

. In 2006 he was inducted into the ARL Hall of Fame.

In February 2008, Treweek was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL

National Rugby League

The National Rugby League is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, called the Telstra Premiership , is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand...

 and ARL

Australian Rugby League

The Australian Rugby League is the governing body for the sport of rugby league in Australia. It is made up of state bodies, including the New South Wales Rugby League and the Queensland Rugby League...

 to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.

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