Career
An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative forward, he played club football in Sydney for Balmain, winning the 1946 NSWRFL Premiership with them and later being appointed their captain. Fred de Belin started playing junior rugby league for the Balmain Police boys club, reaching first grade with the Balmain DRLFC of the NSWRFL premiership in the 1942 season. De Belin joined the Royal Australian Air Force and served during World World War World War II That season he played in the Tigers" victory over Saint George in the final.
238 in the second Test against New Zealand, helping Australia to a narrow victory that levelled the series.
After breaking his leg in the first match of the tour, he recovered to make three Test appearances. The eithth and last of de Belin"s Test appearances came against Great Britain in 1950, when Australia reclaimed the The Ashes on home soil for the first time in thirty years.
The 1950 NSWRFL season would be de Belin"s last with Balmain. During the 1951 Premiership"s pre-season, after playing trial matches for Balmain, de Belin announced that he was taking up a two-year contract worth £ 450 as captain-coach with the Cootamundra club in the Maher Cup competition.
However injury and poor form led to his drop to reserve grade and eventual retirement in 1951.
