John Sattler: Difference between revisions

John Sattler was born in 1942 at [[Telarah, New South Wales]],<ref>{{cite web |first=Subhashree |last=Panda |title=John Sattler: Rugby League Icon Passed Away at the Age of 80 |url=https://ksusentinel.com/2023/03/20/john-sattler-rugby-league-icon-passed-away-at-the-age-of-80/ |website=KSU Sentinel |date=20 March 2023 |access-date=20 March 2023}}</ref><ref name="NSWRLvale">{{cite web |title=Vale {{!}} John Sattler |url=https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2023/03/20/vale--john-sattler/ |website=[[New South Wales Rugby League]] |date=20 March 2023 |access-date=20 March 2023}}</ref> and moved to [[Kurri Kurri, New South Wales|Kurri Kurri]] with his family when he was 12 years old.<ref name="NSWRLvale"/> His paternal great-great-grandfather, Peter Sattler, was a German immigrant who arrived in [[Maitland, New South Wales|Maitland]] in the late 1890s aged 6. He attended Marist Brothers High School in Maitland, [[Kurri Kurri, New South Wales|New South Wales]], Sattler began playing rugby league at the late age of 16 for [[Kurri Kurri Bulldogs|Kurri Kurri]] and represented [[Newcastle rugby league team|Newcastle]] against the touring British side in 1962. The following year he moved to Sydney and joined the [[South Sydney Rabbitohs]].

 

 

After 195 games with South Sydney, and four premiership victories, John Sattler signed for [[Wests Panthers|Brisbane Western Suburbs]] in 1973.