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Full name | Paul Cuneo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 2 July 1938||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 7 January 2014 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | (aged 75)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Centre, Prop, Second-row | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paul Cuneo (1938–2014) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s for Newtown and North Sydney Bears in the NSWRL competition. [2]
Cuneo began his first grade career for North Sydney in 1957. In 1961, Cuneo was selected to represent NSW City against NSW Country. Cuneo spent a total of 6 seasons at Norths before switching to Newtown in 1963. Cuneo played his one and only finals game for Newtown in 1966 against Manly which ended in a 10-9 loss. Cuneo retired at the end of 1969 after 119 first grade games. He then went on to coach the Newtown reserve grade side in the following years. He died on 7 January 2014.[3][4]