{"id":143847,"date":"2021-10-13T22:40:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T22:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=143847"},"modified":"2021-10-13T22:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T22:58:37","slug":"league-immortal-norm-provan-dies-aged-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=143847","title":{"rendered":"League Immortal Norm Provan dies aged 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby league legend Norm Provan has died aged 88.<\/p>\n<p>The 12th Immortal had been battling dementia in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>He was pivotal in leading St George to their record run of premiership wins and played 18 Tests for Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"009b7cda-37d1-45be-a03e-c347c3a9304c\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/009b7cda-37d1-45be-a03e-c347c3a9304c\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"859\" data-height=\"567\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He played in 10 of St George&#x27;s 11 successive grand-final victories, the last five as captain-coach.<\/p>\n<p>Provan&#x27;s feats were further immortalised by the NRL, with the icon and Arthur Summons captured in a famous photo that adorns the premiership trophy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRLonNine\/status\/1448418014500691968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRLonNine\/status\/1448418014500691968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The league great was born in the NSW Riverina and attended school in the North Sydney district.<\/p>\n<p>Provan proved to be the one that got away from Eastern Suburbs, after he trialled unsuccessfully with Easts before joining St George from the Sutherland juniors.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Rugby league legend Norm Provan has died aged 88. The 12th Immortal had been battling dementia in recent years. He was pivotal in leading St <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=143847\" title=\"League Immortal Norm Provan dies aged 88\">[&#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\/143847"}],"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=143847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143849,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143847\/revisions\/143849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}