Rod O'Loan

Roderick John Charles O'Loan, MBE, CBE (1915–1992) was an Australian rugby league footballer for the Eastern Suburbs club in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership.

He then shifted to Easts in 1935 with his university teammate Ross McKinnon and became part of a champion back line which included Dave Brown, Fred Tottey, Jack Beaton, Ernie Norman and Viv Thicknesse, which broke many scoring record in 1935 with 131 tries in just sixteen regular season matches.

O'Loan participated in four premierships during a stellar career at the Tricolours: 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1940, but chose to never play at representative level due to study and corporate commitments.

In an article in the Freeman’s Journal of 1931, it was stated that Rod O'Loan was the 1931 junior sprint champion over 100 yards in N.S.W., had won the Botany Junior Sprint title in 1931, was a champion high jumper at 13 years of age and was the holder of many junior swimming records, and he was in the First XI cricket and the First XV Rugby teams at 15 years of age.

[8] He was appointed managing director of Finney Isles Stores of Brisbane in 1958 and served as president of the Retailers' Association in 1962.