Harold Horder
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| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | Harold Norman Horder | |||||
| Nickname | Wonder Winger, The Best Bear | |||||
| Born |
24 February 1894 Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Died | 21 August 1978 (aged 84) | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | |||||
| Weight | 67 kg (10 st 8 lb) | |||||
| Position | Wing | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1912–20 | South Sydney | 77 | 95 | 68 | 0 | 421 |
| 1920–23 | North Sydney | 50 | 50 | 73 | 0 | 296 |
| 1924 | South Sydney | 12 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 39 |
| 1925–26 | Coorparoo | |||||
| Total | 139 | 152 | 150 | 0 | 756 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1914–24 | Australia | 13 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 53 |
| 1915–24 | New South Wales | 9 | 23 | 18 | 0 | 105 |
| 1925 | Queensland | 1 | 7 | |||
Harold Norman Horder (23 February 1894 – 21 August 1978) was an Australian rugby league player. A national and state representative player whose club career was with the South Sydney Rabbitohs and North Sydney Bears between 1912 and 1924. Regarded as one of the greatest wingers to play the game, from 1924 until 1973 his 152 career tries was the NSWRFL record.
Born in Surry Hills, New South Wales, Horder played 86 games for Souths between 1912–1919 and 1924, 9 games for New South Wales, 13 Test matches for Australia.
After following his brother Clarence "Spot" Horder to South Sydney, Harold in his first game, stepped and swerved through the entire Glebe team in a 90-metre dash to score one of the greatest individual tries in rugby league history. He went on to be the NSW Rugby Football League's top try-scorer in 1913, 1914 and 1917 and for each of the four seasons 1913, 1914, 1918 and 1922 he was the League's top point scorer.
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