John Ferguson (rugby league)

John "Chicka" Ferguson (born 15 July 1954), an Indigenous Australian, is a former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative winger, in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership for the Newtown Jets, Eastern Suburbs Roosters and finally the Canberra Raiders, with whom he won the 1989 and 1990 NSWRL premierships. A prolific try-scorer, who topped the NSWRL's scoring list in 1988, Ferguson also played in England with Wigan, helping them to victory in the 1985 Challenge Cup Final. He has since been named in Australia's indigenous team of the century (1908–2008).

Ferguson played in his first Grand Final with Newtown in 1981 before moving to Easts. He later moved to England, for a period he spent playing with Wigan. During this period, Ferguson came close to eclipsing the number of games played, with the tries he had scored. John Ferguson played Right-Wing, i.e. number 2, in Wigan's 18-26 defeat by St. Helens in the 1984 Lancashire County Cup final during the 1984–85 season at Central Park, Wigan, on Sunday 28 October 1984, and played Right-Wing, i.e. number 2, and scored 2-tries in Wigan's 28-24 victory over Hull in the 1985 Challenge Cup final during the 1984–85 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 4 May 1985.