Grahame Bowen | |
Fullname: | Grahame Peter Bowen |
Birth Date: | 7 September 1946 |
Birth Place: | Townsville, Queensland, Australia |
Death Place: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Retired: | yes |
Club1: | St George Dragons |
Year1start: | 1967 |
Year1end: | 72 |
Appearances1: | 75 |
Tries1: | 13 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Fieldgoals1: | 0 |
Points1: | 39 |
Club2: | Cronulla Sharks |
Year2start: | 1973 |
Year2end: | 74 |
Appearances2: | 29 |
Tries2: | 5 |
Goals2: | 0 |
Fieldgoals2: | 0 |
Points2: | 15 |
Source: | [1] Whiticker/Hudson |
Grahame Bowen (7 September 1946 – 29 March 2016) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s.[2]
A Cronulla-Sutherland junior player, Grahame Bowen was graded at St George Dragons in 1967 and went on to play six seasons for Saints between 1967-1972 and played 75 first grade games. Bowen played prop-forward in the 1971 Grand Final side that were defeated by South Sydney Rabbitohs. He then moved to Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in 1973, and starred in the Sharks team that were defeated in the 1973 Grand Final. Bowen played one more year for the Sharks before retiring in 1974.[3]
Grahame Bowen was one of the former St George Dragons players that attended the Reg Gasnier tribute ceremony at Kogarah Oval on 5 July 2014. Bowen died on 29 March 2016.[4]