Les Cubitt
Les Cubitt was an Australian representative rugby league player, a, or whose club career was with Eastern Suburbs and the Glebe. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Club career
Cubitt commenced his club career at just eighteen years of age with Glebe playing alongside his older brother Charlie Cubitt in the New [South Wales Rugby Football League season 1911#Final|1911 Grand Final] loss to Eastern Suburbs. In 1913, Cubitt joined Eastern Suburbs where he played for the next nine seasons winning a premiership in New South Wales Rugby [Football League season 1913#Final|1913]. Cubitt was the younger brother of the rugby league footballer; Charlie Cubitt.During the beginning of his career, Cubitt was better known for his goal-kicking skills, however, he transitioned into more of a try-scorer later in his career. He was an adept side-stepper and was also very proficient at selling fake passes to opposing defenders.
Representative career
He was first selected for New South [Wales Rugby League team|New South Wales] in 1911 but had to wait until the end of the First World War to make his national representative debut. He played in the centres in all four Tests of Australia national [rugby league team|Australia]'s first tour of New Zealand in 1919 scoring four tries in the tests and 17 tries in the last three tour matches. He is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No. 95.He was selected as captain of the 1921–22 [Kangaroo tour of Great Britain|1921-22 "Australasian" Kangaroos] which had two New Zealanders in the squad. He concealed a serious knee injury which he aggravated on the tour in England and which led to his eventual retirement in 1922.