Highlights from some spectacular tries scored by Eastern Suburbs (today known as the Sydney Roosters) in the 1975 season. This side won 19 premiership games in a row, won the Grand Final 38-0 (in the days when tries were worth only 3 points) and is widely acclaimed as the best club rugby league side the world has seen. Enjoy as you sit back and watch the brilliance of Shubert, Mullins, Brass, Harris, Peard, Mayes, Artie, Coote, Walters, Reilly and many more.
If you like the footage, why not buy the 1975 season highlights DVD.
http://www.oo.com.au/1975_Roosters_NRL_Grand_Final__P38615C337.cfm
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thanks for this…….time machine stuff
Great footage, when rugby league actually meant something.
Unfortunately the music is ridiculous and has nothing to do with 1970's.
Ian Schubert, what an amazing 18 year old he was!
@Kennychiello awesome song (first one) whats it called mate! Go the ROOSTARS
Burn in My Light. It used to be Orton's entrance music in the WWE,
@Kennychiello -its fantastic the NRL have released some club action from the 70s!
i hope they do more –
who was the referee @2.52 looks like either French or English? Must ve been out here for the 1975 world cup at the time
Can lay claim to be a top three club side in the history of the game 19 wins straight still stands,an amazing team.My No1
3:55 nowadays they would've called that up
Fans of the modern game keep telling us that today's players are bigger, fitter, faster and so the game is better, except for one thing..Its boring..oh God, its so boring. Games like those shown here display all the best of league as it should be..players of all sizes..standing tackles and off loading…set plays..and when that don't work..just wing it..use your imagination. And what about that Mark Harris. He must have a been a scary sight running at you!
@TombstoneHeart I agree. even though the number of minutes per try today is less than in was in 1975 (10 minutes per try now, 13.2 in 1975) there is a lot more variety that the high kicking and passing that dominates today.
Love this footage. I hope I can find some more. Thank you
Thanks so much for this gem. Mark Harris' try at 6mins58secs is the best try I have ever seen and I'm proud to say I saw it happen. He might as well have walked because nobody could stop him.
Is that Doug Parkinison singing Rooster man.
I am trying to find some footage of Mark Harris when he left league for Gridiron, has anybody got any or know where I can get some??
Many old timers will have a very strong argument for St.George 1959 being the best ever, undefeated that year,just one 20-20 draw against Balmain in which Saints scored 6 tries to 2 Keith Barnes 7 goals keeping Tigers in the game.But as a Souths fan i'll always say the 1975 Eats team were the best club team i ever saw!!! Now i ll wash my mouth out with soap n water.
It sure is Doug
That bought back some great memories. Loved it
a time before the advertising blight on the jersey. 🙂
some fairly ordinary defense from Southes, Norths and Newtown,…
..where is the original commentary ?
It wasn't the defence was bad,it was the attack was so good.Nobody could stop Big Artie from offloading even with 3 to 4 players on him.
I am pretty sure the try from Mark Harris at 6.58 was from the kick off. I was at the game at the SCG. The game was 5 seconds old when Fairfax caught the kick off on the full and flicked it to Harris. He busted through Rod Reddy at the line and made Langlands look like an amateur. Great footwork for a big man moving at speed. I was sitting in the Bradman stand and Harris was running directly towards us. I was 9 and haven't seen that try again until now, some 40 years later. A great memory of Harris at his peak. Pity he was injured and couldn't play the '75 grand final. He was a big man but when you are 9 years old he was a giant.
The Artie Beetson offload at 0:38? Try that some-time. Then he carries four over at 6:55.
He'd beat you with muck and muscle, or with a glance and a well timed step to create the gap.
The rest of 'em? Basically an entire team of Terry Lamb style support players. Try beating that!
Gamers looked better at the SCG too.
Great to see all the old footy jumpers.
How many tries did Johnny Mayes score?
Roosters 1975 season is one of the best of all time
SERIOUSLY i had forgotten how good this team was, especially the tries scored by Ian Schubert and Mark Harris. Even Des O'Reilly scoring tries. UNBELIEVABLE football team.
Proud to say my uncle was Peter Moscatt RIP… Replaced this year 75' by Elwyn Walters but from 71 through to late 70's I never missed a game. Saw all these tries, loved Mark Harris, what a big centre he was for back then. Miss the Sportsground. Johnny Peard's sister Margaret married Peter so you can't get anymore of an Easts supporter… Thanks for posting
Glory days of rugby league before Pacific islanders stuffed it.
Born in 75 I'm a Mad Roosters fan What a year
Second try at 0:14 seconds, John Brass could nearly have drowned!
In my opinion that Roosters side of 1975 is one of the best rugby league side’s of all time,even too the point of representation sides You could have just put them all in a Australian jersey and they would have beaten the world. Thanks for the memories 😀
The roosters one 19 games in a row in 1975 and one the comp so thay went one better than storm I don't think any team will beat that bare the chooks 2022 winners hands down
Back up, back up and back up.
Big Arthur put a few in, great ball player for a front rower
north sydney oval just as i remember it a dust bowl☝🏻
Certainly by far the best team in their time . Great brand of football- supreme support play – unbelievable backing up.
Any team that had the greatest prop of all time, Artist Beetson, the legendary Ron Coote at lock, a three quarter line of Brett Mullins, John Brass, Mark Harris, and Ian Schubert, and the brilliant Russell Fairfax at fullback, with super coach Jack Gibson, would under current coaching and diet regimens, be unbeatable. Penrith and Melbourne, Souths 2014 and Nth Qld 2015 would not get close. Only Trent Robinson's Roosters could compete.