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1961 Brisbane Rugby League season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ112860770 ↗
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The 1961 Brisbane Rugby League season was the 53rd season of the Brisbane Rugby League premiership. Eight teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a third straight grand final matchup between Northern Suburbs and Fortitude Valley. Norths won 29-5 to claim their third consecutive premiership.

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“1961 Brisbane Rugby League season” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Brisbane, Rugby and League can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Brisbane, Rugby and League.
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This entry incorporates text from “1961 Brisbane Rugby League season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.