Nigel WattsNigel Kevin Watts was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s.Playing careerWatts was a schoolboy rugby union standout at St Joseph's College, going on to star for the Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union club before embarking on a brief rugby league career at St. George during World War II. Since he had never played rugby league before, the residential rule did not apply to Watts, who was a resident of Bondi at the time. Watts served in the Australian Army during his time at the Saints,. After being discharged from the Army, he transitioned to a captain-coach role in the Illawarra competition in 1946. He represented a combined South Coast Division representative team that defeated the touring Great Britain national rugby league team 15–12 at Wollongong, New South Wales on 2 June 1946.DeathWatts died in Sydney on 17 February 1995