Les Cowie

Leslie Gordon Cowie was an Australian rugby league footballer, a fine for the champion Sydney Rabbitohs">City New South Wales rugby league team">Sydney Rabbitohs teams of the 1950s and an Australia national [rugby league team|Australia] national representative.
In 1994 he received a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to Rugby League football.

Club career

Nicknamed "Chicka", Cowie debuted with Souths in 1947. Cowie's career with South Sydney Rabbitohs stretched from 1947 to 1957, during which he played in five premiership winning teams. In all he played 178 first grade games for Souths.
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 New South [Wales Rugby League season 1908|1908] through to National [Rugby League season 2004|2004].

Representative career

Cowie made six Test appearances for the Australian national representative side.
He toured with the Kangaroos to Great Britain in 1948–49, playing 20 tour matches and scoring 10 tries. He also toured New Zealand with the Kangaroos in 1949 playing in two tests against the Kiwis, six other tour matches and scoring five tries.
Cowie also played 10 games for NSW. He was selected to represent City [New South Wales rugby league team|Sydney] against France during their 1951 [French rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand|1951 tour of Australasia] in a match that ended in a 19-all draw.