Wilf Rosenberg

Wilf Rosenberg (18 June 1934 – 14 January 2019) was a South African rugby union and rugby league player who played in the 1950s and 1960s.

Rosenberg was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1994.

Rosenberg moved to Australia as a child and started playing rugby union while a pupil at Sydney Grammar School. As a teenager, he returned to South Africa and played for his local school, Jeppe High School for Boys in Johannesburg.

Career Early in his career, Rosenberg began playing for the Transvaal provincial team. Picked five times for the South Africa national rugby union team between 1955 and 1958, in which he scored two tries, Rosenberg moved to the United Kingdom and changed codes to become a professional rugby league player while studying dentistry at Leeds University. He made 81 appearances for Leeds, scoring 73 tries.

After retiring from rugby, Rosenberg returned to South Africa, where he established his own dental practice before a stroke ended his dental career in 1970. After this, Rosenberg turned his hand to other pursuits, including boxing promotion.

Personal life Rosenberg was married twice. He first married Elinor, with whom he had three children. Elinor died of cancer in 1989.