Cyril Connell Jr.
Australian rugby league footballer and scout for the Brisbane Broncos
Cyril Connell (born 4 May 1928 in Rockhampton, Queensland, died 9 June 2009 in Brisbane, Queensland) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. An Australian international and Queensland Maroons representative centre/five-eighth, he played his club football in Toowoomba and Rockhampton. At the time of his death, he had been a recruitment scout for the Brisbane Broncos club of the NRL for several years. He was also the son of former rugby league footballer and administrator Cyril Connell Sr.
Biography
Playing career
A similar build to the diminutive Clive Churchill, Connell Junior debuted for Rockhampton Brothers in 1947. He linked with Toowoomba's Newtown team in 1950 where, under the guidance of noted coach Duncan Thompson, he secured a Queensland jumper. He wore the maroon jumper 25 times between 1952 and 1957.
Connell played for the Toowoomba rugby league team against the visitors of the 1953 American All Stars tour of Australia and New Zealand and the 1954 Great Britain Lions tour.
Connell reached the pinnacle as a player when selected for Australia against New Zealand in 1956. He was elected for Australia again for the 1956–57 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France.
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