St. George 16–12 South Sydney Rabbitohs — Semi-Final, 1949 NRL Finals Series
20 Aug 1949 · Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, NSW · Attendance: 41,696
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Semi-Final, 1949 NRL finals series: St. George 16–12 South Sydney Rabbitohs, at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, NSW on 20 Aug 1949.
Sourcing caveat: RLP's page for this match is genuinely incomplete for tries beyond one scorer per side, confirmed via repeated direct re-checks of the source (not just an extraction artifact). Named scoring - St George: Ron Roberts (2 tries) + Matt McCoy (2 goals) = 10 points, 6 short of the recorded 16; South Sydney: Johnny Graves (3 goals) = 6 points, 6 short of the recorded 12. Roughly 2 further tries per side are implied by the arithmetic but cannot be attributed to named players from the available source text. Reported as an honest, unresolved gap on both sides rather than invented scorers.
Scorers
| St. George | Tries: Roberts (2) Goals: McCoy (2) |
| South Sydney Rabbitohs | Goals: Graves (3) |
Team sheets
| St. George | South Sydney Rabbitohs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fleming | Fullback | Churchill | 1 |
| 2 | Roberts | Wing | Graves | 2 |
| 3 | McRitchie | Centre | Spillane | 3 |
| 4 | McCoy | Centre | Brogan | 4 |
| 5 | Pidding | Wing | Allmond | 5 |
| 6 | Hawke (c) | Five-Eighth | Moynihan | 6 |
| 7 | Hill | Halfback | Bryan | 7 |
| 8 | Jardine | Lock | Cowie | 8 |
| 9 | Banks | Second Row | Rayner (c) | 9 |
| 10 | Langton | Second Row | Purcell | 10 |
| 11 | Munn | Prop | Melville | 11 |
| 12 | Facer | Hooker | Hammerton | 12 |
| 13 | Holland | Prop | Donoghue | 13 |
| Jim Duckworth | Coach | Jack Rayner / Dave Watson | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Tom McMahon |
Match report
20 Aug 1949, SCG. Halftime: 7-7.