Rugby league icon dead at 80

Rugby league icon John Sattler has died astatine the property of 80.

Sattler had suffered from dementia for a fig of years.

He played 197 games for South Sydney successful the 1960s and 70s, and famously led the Rabbitohs to triumph successful the 1970 expansive last contempt breaking his jaw during the game.

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That was 1 of 4 premierships helium won with his beloved Bunnies, having been named skipper of the squad successful 1967 and that play starring the nine to its archetypal rubric successful 12 years.

He besides captained South Sydney to titles successful 1968 and 1971.

He was inducted into the National Rugby League Hall of Fame successful 2008

John Sattler leaves the tract with a breached jaw aft the 1970 expansive last betwixt the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Balmain Tigers. (Supplied)

Following the 1967 expansive final, Sattler was picked to correspond Australia and toured with the Kangaroos to Great Britain and France.

He began his vocation astatine fastener and aboriginal transitioned to the beforehand row, and to this time is regarded arsenic 1 of the toughest to ever subordinate the game.

This was ne'er much evident than the 1970 premiership decider, erstwhile helium broke his jaw successful the archetypal 5 minutes but played the remainder of the crippled and led the Rabbitohs to a 23-12 triumph implicit Manly.

The wounded unluckily robbed Sattler of the accidental to correspond Australia astatine the World Cup that year.

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