| Herman Peters | |
| Birth Date: | 18 April 1899 |
| Birth Place: | North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Death Place: | Lane Cove, New South Wales, Australia |
| Club1: | North Sydney |
| Year1start: | 1917 |
| Year1end: | 25 |
| Appearances1: | 101 |
| Tries1: | 62 |
| Goals1: | 2 |
| Fieldgoals1: | 0 |
| Points1: | 190 |
| Teama: | Australia |
| Yearastart: | 1921 |
| Yearaend: | 22 |
| Appearancesa: | 0 |
| Triesa: | 0 |
| Goalsa: | 0 |
| Fieldgoalsa: | 0 |
| Pointsa: | 0 |
| Teamb: | New South Wales |
| Yearbstart: | 1921 |
| Yearbend: | 23 |
| Appearancesb: | 2 |
| Triesb: | 1 |
| Goalsb: | 0 |
| Fieldgoalsb: | 0 |
| Pointsb: | 3 |
| Teamc: | Metropolis |
| Yearcstart: | 1919 |
| Yearcend: | 23 |
| Appearancesc: | 3 |
| Triesc: | 7 |
| Goalsc: | 0 |
| Fieldgoalsc: | 0 |
| Pointsc: | 21 |
| Retired: | yes |
| Coachteam1: | North Sydney |
| Coachyear1start: | 1934 |
| Coachgames1: | 14 |
| Coachwins1: | 5 |
| Coachdraws1: | 0 |
| Coachlosses1: | 9 |
| Source: | https://web.archive.org/web/20080823154225/http://203.166.101.37/NRL08/playerindex.asp & http://www.northsydneybears.com.au/history/legends/peters.htm |
Herman Peters (1899–1989) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s.[1] He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School.[2] An international representative, he played his club football with North Sydney in the NSWRFL premiership and won two premierships with the club.[3]
Peters played eight games of the 1921 NSWRFL season in which the North Sydney team won the premiership without having to play a final. As part of Norths' champion backline, he gained selection on the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain,[4] along with clubmates, Blinkhorn, Rule, Horder, Ives and Thompson. He went on to play in the 1922 NSWRFL season's Premiership Final for Norths, scoring a try to help them claim consecutive premierships. In the 1923 NSWRFL season, Peters was the premiership season's top try-scorer. He scored 16 tries in 18 games.[5] [6]
Peters coached North Sydney in the 1934 NSWRFL season. He later went on to be a National Selector for the ARL. He was known as "The Grand Old Man" of the North Sydney Bears club and was a staunch supporter right up to his death in 1989.[7] Before his death in 1989, Peters was quoted as saying "Hoping for Norths to win another one has kept me going I've watched them all the years since 1922, and I want to be there on the day it happens".[8]