Ron Stanton
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| Full name | Ronald Stanley Stanton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 December 1928 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 May 2012 (aged 83) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Halfback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ron Stanton (1928−2012) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s. A Queensland representative halfback and a key member of the Brisbane Rugby League premiership-winning Eastern Suburbs side of 1950, he joined the New South Wales Rugby Football League's St. George club for one year in 1952. Towards the end of the season, Stanton suffered a career-ending leg injury and retired from playing.[1] In 1953, he returned to Brisbane to coach the Souths Club at Gordonvale, Queensland.[2]
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- Australian rugby league players
- St. George Dragons players
- Queensland rugby league team players
- Brisbane Tigers players
- Brisbane rugby league team players
- 1928 births
- 2012 deaths
- Rugby league halfbacks
- Rugby league players from Brisbane
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
- Australian rugby league biography, 1920s birth stubs