{"id":357775,"date":"2024-01-05T22:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T23:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=357775"},"modified":"2024-01-06T01:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T01:01:41","slug":"rabbitohs-mourning-one-of-the-games-true-nice-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=357775","title":{"rendered":"Rabbitohs mourning &#039;one of the game&#039;s true nice guys&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/rugby-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rugby league<\/a> world is in mourning following the death of popular former <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/south-sydney-rabbitohs\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"South Sydney\">South Sydney<\/a> captain Darrell Bampton.<\/p>\n<p>Bampton played over 100 games for the Rabbitohs in the 1970s, going on to become the club&#x27;s chief executive and earning an OAM for services to the game.<\/p>\n<p>He died on Saturday morning aged 74 following a long illness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOW LIVE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/australia-pakistan-2024-live-scores-third-test-day-four-highlights-results-latest-updates\/203c99e0-572b-45b5-8150-1bf298f0f3b7\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Australia v Pakistan, third Test day four\ufeff\"><strong>Australia v Pakistan, third Test day four\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/weightlifting-2024-kiana-elliott-gymnastics-exclusive\/2878a011-3f44-46ff-922b-f9cbbe88da6e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Aussie&#x27;s &#x27;addictive&#x27; find after scary childhood diagnosis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\ufeff<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/brisbane-international-tennis-2024-jordan-thompson-shocks-rafael-nadal-result\/e9770264-ac05-43df-bee9-d52fddc640ef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Nadal stunned by Aussie in epic three-set thriller<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A local Souths junior, Bampton was born in 1949 and captained the Bunnies to President&#x27;s Cup glory in 1969.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"145cd488-1960-4533-84bb-f8cabecc703b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/145cd488-1960-4533-84bb-f8cabecc703b\" alt=\"Former South Sydney captain Darrell Brampton has died.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The following year, he made his top grade debut and went on to play 116 games in the famous red and green.<\/p>\n<p>He also played for Collegians Wollongong as captain-coach in the mid 1970s, captaining the victorious Illawarra side against Great Britain in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>After retirement, Bampton managed NSW and Australian teams but the Rabbitohs were always his first love.<\/p>\n<p>One of the game&#x27;s true nice guys, Bampton was awarded Life Membership of SSDRLFC in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>His funeral this week is set to be attended by Souths greats from near and far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The rugby league world is in mourning following the death of popular former South Sydney captain Darrell Bampton. Bampton played over 100 games for the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=357775\" title=\"Rabbitohs mourning &#039;one of the game&#039;s true nice guys&#039;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357777,"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\/357775"}],"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=357775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357778,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357775\/revisions\/357778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/357777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}