Chris Anderson (rugby league)
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Personal information
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| Full name | Christopher Anderson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 May 1952 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing information
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christopher “Chris” Anderson (born 2 May 1952) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s, and 1980s, and coach of the 1990s, and 2000s. An Australian Kangaroos and New South Wales Blues representative winger, he featured in Canterbury-Bankstown’s third grand final win and captained Halifax to both League and Cup success.
As a coach, Anderson took Australia to World Cup victory and coached both the Bulldogs and Melbourne Storm to premiership wins. He is also a member of the Halifax Hall of Fame.
Anderson was a Wing who was recruited by Peter Moore from Forbes, New South Wales, where he attended Red Bend College . As a flankman for the Bulldogs, Anderson gave the club a vital tryscoring power which had been quite absent from Belmore throughout the 1950s, and 1960s.In 1974, when the Bulldogs reached the Grand Final, Anderson broke Morrie Murphy’s 1947 record of sixteen tries for the club.
He also played in England for Widnes. Anderson played left wing in Widnes’ 2–3 defeat by Bradford Northern in the 1974–75 Player’s No.6 Trophy Final during the 1974–75 season at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington on Saturday 25 January 1975. Also during the 1974–75 Northern Rugby Football League season he was flown to England to play on the wing for Widnes in their 14–7 victory over Warrington in the 1975 Challenge Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 10 May 1975.
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