About Laidley Burge
Lived 1897 – 1990 (aged 92–93). Laidley Burge was a rugby union player and rugby league player.
Laidley Burge (1896–1990) was a rugby league footballer in New South Wales during the 1910s and 1920s.
Playing career Burge played seven seasons and 64 first grade games for the Glebe Dirty Reds between 1916 and 1922, many of them alongside his brother Frank Burge.
He and Frank formed a front-row partnership in the Glebe side that contested the 1922 NSWRL Grand final against North Sydney which Glebe lost 35-3 at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He retired from rugby league after that game.
Death Burge died on 17 September 1990, age 93 at his home at Gold Coast, Queensland and was the last of the famous Burge brothers to die.
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Who was Laidley Burge?
rugby union player (1897-1990)
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Laidley Burge was born in 1897 in Sydney.
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Laidley Burge died on 17 September 1990.
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Laidley Burge was a rugby union player and rugby league player.
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