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Australian rugby league player
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Death:
23 March 1975
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Biography
Introduction
Bill Ives (1896-1975) was an Australian rugby league footballer from the 1920s.
Career
Ives played for the Glebe in 1920, Eastern Suburbs between 1921-1927 and the St. George Dragons 1928 in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in Australia. His usual position was at prop-forward. He won two premierships with the Roosters in 1923 and 1924 and captained the club on many occasions.
He was the younger brother of Australian test player Clarrie Ives.
He also played first-class cricket for New South Wales as a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler, appearing in seven matches between 1919–20 and 1921–22.