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Tom Briggs (rugby league)
Tom Briggs (29 July 1919 – 4 March 1991) was an Australian rugby league footballer from the 1940s. Tom Briggs was a very fine rugby league player from Young, New South Wales. He starred in Rugby League Army teams during World War Two including a match representing NSW against Queensland servicemen held on Bougainville[1] in which he was man of the match. After he returned from the war,[2] Briggs joined the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1946. Tom married in 1946 and moved to the St.George area at the end of the 1947 season.[3] Tom Briggs had two brilliant seasons at the St. George Dragons in 1948 & 1949, scoring 16 tries from 17 games. Injuries towards the end of the 1949 season curtailed his career. Tom Briggs died in Sydney on 4 Mar 1991, aged 71. References
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