Pat Devery

Patrick Charles Devery (9 August 1922 – 17 December 2017) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s, and coached in the 1950s.

During the 1946 Great Britain Lions tour he was selected to play as the Australian national team's five-eighth in all three Ashes tests.

At the end of the 1947 season a large number of Australians signed with English clubs, headed by Devery who signed with Huddersfield for a fee of £1,350[6] Devery scored a try and kicked two goals in Huddersfield's 13–12 win over Warrington in the 1948–49 Northern Rugby Football League season's Championship Final at Maine Road, Manchester on Saturday 14 May 1949.

[7] In the same season he played left-centre in Huddersfield's 4–11 defeat by Bradford Northern in the 1949 Yorkshire Cup Final at Headingley, Leeds on Saturday 29 October 1949.

He played left-centre and scored a goal in Huddersfield's 15–10 victory over St. Helens in the 1953 Challenge Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 25 April 1953, in front of a crowd of 89,588.

[7] In 2005 Devery was named as one of the inaugural inductees into the Balmain Tigers Hall of Fame, he was the last surviving member of Huddersfield's 1952–53 Challenge Cup Final winning team.