{"id":88875,"date":"2021-06-21T22:40:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=88875"},"modified":"2021-06-22T00:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T00:10:20","slug":"roosters-mourning-death-of-premiership-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=88875","title":{"rendered":"Roosters mourning death of premiership star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another member of the great <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/sydney-roosters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Eastern Suburbs\">Eastern Suburbs<\/a> team of the mid-1970s has died.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Cameron, a hard-running centre from Queensland, passed away from dementia on Sunday. He was 73.<\/p>\n<p>Spotted by the Roosters playing in the NSW country town of Narrabri, Cameron joined the Roosters in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve months later he was playing in the grand final for Easts against Manly alongside glamour players Arthur Beetson, John Brass, Ron Coote and Kevin Junee.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"3809be71-a902-463a-bcab-cd63870eee83\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3809be71-a902-463a-bcab-cd63870eee83\" alt=\"Harry Cameron in action for Easts against Manly at the SCG in 1973.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Easts lost that day but Cameron was on the bench in the great Jack Gibson team two years later that beat Canterbury for the title.<\/p>\n<p>A no-frills centre who rarely grabbed the headlines, he was a fine player and represented Queensland five times.<\/p>\n<p>In the past 18 months, the Roosters have now lost three members of that legendary team of the mid-1970s &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/rugby-league-mourning-death-of-mark-harris\/14677317-839c-46c3-a175-d52639ebb59c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Mark Harris\">Mark Harris<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-2021-roosters-legend-barry-bunny-reilly-passes-away\/cffd2bf2-d5f2-4566-95e6-a63ec4dd4a11\" title=\"&#x27;Bunny&#x27; Reilly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#x27;Bunny&#x27; Reilly<\/a> and now Cameron.<\/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>Another member of the great Eastern Suburbs team of the mid-1970s has died. Harry Cameron, a hard-running centre from Queensland, passed away from dementia on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=88875\" title=\"Roosters mourning death of premiership star\">[&#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\/88875"}],"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=88875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88877,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88875\/revisions\/88877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}