Graham Enos Lye (born 14 August 1948) is an Australian former

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

player. Lye was a product of rugby league in the

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. A five-eighth, Lye starred with two tries for

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in a win over Queensland at Lang Park in 1969 and subsequently won a place on the

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squad for a tour of New Zealand, where he was kept out of the Test line-up by

Denis Pittard Denis John Pittard (born 8 December 1945) is an Australian rugby league footballer, an attacking who played in the 1960s and 1970s for the Western Suburbs, South Sydney and Parramatta as well as the Australian national representative side. ...

. He began competing with

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in 1970 and the following pre-season took over the club captaincy, but had to relinquish it to Ron Lynch when the league season began, following a player's vote.

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Graham Lye
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