Western Suburbs Magpies 10–8 St. George — Major Semi-Final, 1963 NRL Finals Series
10 Aug 1963 · Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, NSW · Attendance: 42,065
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Major Semi-Final, 1963 NRL finals series: Western Suburbs Magpies 10–8 St. George, at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, NSW on 10 Aug 1963.
Sourcing caveat: Western Suburbs' named scorers (1 try + 2 goals = 7) fall 3 points short of the recorded 10, likely a second unnamed try. St George's named scorers (0 tries + 2 goals = 4) fall 4 points short of the recorded 8 -- this does not cleanly resolve to a whole number of tries at these point values and is reported as a genuine unexplained gap rather than guessed.
Scorers
| Western Suburbs Magpies | Tries: Gil MacDougall Goals: Don Parish (2) |
| St. George | Goals: Graeme Langlands (2) |
Team sheets
| Western Suburbs Magpies | St. George | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don Parish | Fullback | Graeme Langlands | 1 |
| 2 | John Mowbray | Wing | Johnny King | 2 |
| 3 | Bob McGuinness | Centre | Reg Gasnier | 3 |
| 4 | Gil MacDougall | Centre | Johnny Greaves | 25 |
| 5 | Peter Dimond | Wing | Eddie Lumsden | 9 |
| 6 | Arthur Summons (c) | Five-Eighth | Bruce Pollard | 21 |
| 7 | Don Malone | Halfback | George Evans | 7 |
| 8 | Kevin Smyth | Lock | John Raper | 6 |
| 9 | John Hayes | Second Row | Elton Rasmussen | 5 |
| 14 | Kel O'Shea | Second Row | Norm Provan (c) | 4 |
| 11 | Denis Meaney | Prop | Kevin Ryan | 3 |
| 12 | Noel Kelly | Hooker | Ian Walsh | 2 |
| 13 | Jack Gibson | Prop | Monty Porter | 1 |
| Jack Fitzgerald | Coach | Norm Provan | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Darcy Lawler |
Match report
Sat 10 Aug 1963, 3:00pm, SCG. Halftime: 5-5.