Bruce Olive
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 28 August 1930 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 May 2025 (aged 94) Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Prop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bruce Olive (28 August 1930 – 22 May 2025) was an Australian indigenous professional rugby league player who played as a prop forward for the Newtown Jets in the 1960s.
Wollongong prop played for New South Wales in nine matches between 1958-62 but could not break into the Australian Test side. Olive, who paved the way for Country’s upset wins over City in 1961-62, later played with Newtown in the mid-1960s.[2][3]
Olive died on 22 May 2025, at the age of 94.[4]
References
- ^ "Bruce Olive". Rugby League Project. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ Alan Whiticker/Glen Hudson: The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. (1995 edition) ISBN 1875169571
- ^ Walter, Brad (3 August 2020). "Indigenous pioneer: How Bruce Olive paved the way for Big Artie". NRL.com. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
- ^ "Bruce Olive". Rugby League Project. Retrieved 24 May 2025.