Career
A state and national representative winger from Portuguese Kembla, New South Wales, Hazelton came to Sydney in 1939 to join the Street George Dragons in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership competition. He was selected on the wing in two matches of the 1937 interstate series for New South Wales against Queensland and scored two tries on debut. He was then selected for the 1937-1938 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France and played in a Test match against New Zealand.
He figured in fifteen other tour matches of that tour.
Hazelton was signed to the Street George Dragons and came to Sydney in 1939. He scored seventeen tries in his top grade debut season of 1939 before World World War II interrupted his career.
He signed up early in the conflict enlisting in June 1940 as a Lance-Bombardier in the 2/5 Field Regiment of the Royal Australian Artillery. He was not discharged until the war"s education
He returned to play for Portuguese Kembla after the war and made another appearance for Country NSW in 1946.
Hazelton"s death in 1985 occurred on the way home from watching a Street George Dragons v Illawarra Steelers match.
