George Treweek

Career

He is rated as one of the finest second-row forwards ever to play for Australia. All up Treweek played 120 games for Souths between 1926 to 1934. He made 7 Test appearances for the Australian national representative side.

His test debut was against the touring Great Britain team in 1928.

He was selected to go on the 1929-1930 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, playing in four tests and 22 games in all and scoring six tries. Curren is listed on the Australian Players Register as kangaroo Number.

142. Treweek also played eighteen games for NSW. George Treweeke was born Albert George Treweek.

The family name was always spelled without the final est He never had the heart to tell the press of the day that they had spelled his name wrong throughout his entire career.

The proper spelling of his surname is actually Treweeke not Treweek though he graciously accepted Treweek throughout his life.

Achievements

• In 2004 he was named by the Souths in their South Sydney Dream Team, consisting of 17 players and a coach representing the club from 1908 through to 2004. In 2006 he was inducted into the Association of Research Libraries Hall of Fame. In February 2008, Treweek was named in the list of Australia"s 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and Association of Research Libraries to celebrate the code"s centenary year in Australia. In 2010, Treweek was named as Captain in the Mascot Juniors RLFC Team of the Century.