Bruce Olive facts for kids
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Personal information
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| Born | 28 August 1930 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 May 2025 (aged 94) Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia |
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Playing information
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| Position | Prop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruce Olive (28 August 1930 – 22 May 2025) was an Australian Indigenous professional rugby league player who played as a prop forward for the Newtown Jets in the 1960s.
Wollongong prop played for New South Wales in nine matches between 1958-62 but could not break into the Australian Test side. Olive, who paved the way for Country’s upset wins over City in 1961-62, later played with Newtown in the mid-1960s.
Olive died on 22 May 2025, at the age of 94.
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