yearastart updated death_date teama fieldgoalsa birth_date tries yearstart triesb appearances pointsa death_place club goals fieldgoals yearbstart points image name fullname caption birth_place yearend teamb height pointsb nickname source yearaend appearancesa yearbend weight appearancesb position goalsa goalsb fieldgoalsb triesa article_title
1910 1 august 2009 14 november 1930 new south wales 0 1883 9 1908 0 156 3 double bay , australia eastern suburbs 0 0 1908 27 sandy-pearce-1910 . jpg sandy pearce sidney charles pearce pearce in 1910 double bay , australia 21 australia 178 cm ftin on 0 sandy -lsb- http://www.yesterdayshero.com.au/playerprofile_sandy-pearce_6520.aspx yesterday 's hero -rsb- 20 6 22 87 kg stlb on 14 hk 0 0 0 1 sandy pearce

sandy pearce

`` sid pearce directs here , for the rugby league player of the same name , see joe pearce '' sidney charles pearce -lrb- born 30 may 1883 and died 14 november 1930 double bay , new south wales -rrb- , better known as sandy , was a pioneer australian rugby league footballer and boxer .
he is considered one of the nation 's finest footballers of the 20th century .
in 1907 he played for new south wales in the very first rugby match run by the newly created ` new south wales rugby football league ' which had just split away from the established new south wales rugby football union .
he made his first national representative appearance in 1908 .
