Alf "Smacker" Blair was an Australian rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 footballer of the 1910s and 20s. An Australian internationaal and New South Wales representative half, he played his club football career with the South Sydney Rabbitohs

South Sydney Rabbitohs

The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...

, with whom he won the 1925, '26, '27 and '29 premierships.

Club career

Blair played 167 first grade games for the Rabbitohs between 1917 and 1930 scoring 37 tries and 120 goals for a total of 351 points. Blair captained Souths to four premierships between 1925 and 1929.

Representative career

He played one test for Australia against the touring Great Britain team in 1924 and also played seven games for New South Wales.

Sources

• Andrews, Malcolm. The ABC of Rugby League. Australia: ABC Books, 2006.