{"id":115590,"date":"2021-08-13T02:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T02:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=115590"},"modified":"2021-08-13T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T10:59:27","slug":"dragons-mourn-loss-of-club-great-at-age-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=115590","title":{"rendered":"Dragons mourn loss of club great at age 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Dragons\">Dragons<\/a> are mourning the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-news-the-mole-st-george-dragons-mourn-death-robin-gourley\/8bd30ab1-508f-4508-acce-436534c7cf5a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"another member of their record breaking team\">another member of their record breaking team<\/a> of the 1950s and &#x27;60s &#8211; tough Englishman Dick Huddart.<\/p>\n<p>A former coalminer who won premierships in both Britain and Australia, Huddart died earlier this week in his Sydney home. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-running utility forward played over 200 games for St Helens and 16 Tests for Great Britain before moving to the Dragons in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>St George paid St Helens a transfer fee of over 12,000 pounds for his services &#8211; a massive amount at that time.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"728dbd31-2214-4978-91b6-6f17aa71b256\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/728dbd31-2214-4978-91b6-6f17aa71b256\" alt=\"Dick Huddart in action for England in 1962.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Huddart immediately slotted into the champion Dragons club that won 11 straight premierships, staying five seasons from 1964 to 1968 before returning to England with Whitehaven.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a series of injuries, he starred for the club and on his day, was as good as any forward in the old Sydney competition.<\/p>\n<p>His son Milton had a season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/canberra-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Canberra Raiders\">Canberra Raiders<\/a> in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Dragons players are set to wear black armbands this weekend as a mark of respect to one of the stars of their golden era.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Dragons are mourning the death of another member of their record breaking team of the 1950s and &#x27;60s &#8211; tough Englishman Dick Huddart. A <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=115590\" title=\"Dragons mourn loss of club great at age 85\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115592,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115590\/revisions\/115592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}