Cec Fifield

An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative centre, he played in the NSWRFL premiership for Sydney clubs, Western Suburbs, Balmain and Canterbury-Bankstown, as well as in England for Hull FC.

The team sailed on the Orsova via the Panama Canal and played an exhibition game in New York before arriving in England, with Fifield becoming Kangaroo number 152.

In 1950 he was approached by English club Rochdale Hornets to be Manager-Coach and to select several young players to help strengthen their team.

The Australian Rugby League lodged a complaint against the five boys playing for Rochdale owing to the then current "poaching" ban being in place.

[3] The blue and golds had struggled massively in their first nine years in the competition, and under Fifield they could not avoid the wooden spoon although his record of four wins and a draw was superior to anything Parramatta would achieve between 1957 and 1961.

Cec "Dick" Fifield died suddenly at his Earlwood home on 7 December 1957 at the age of 54.