Angelo Fiori Crema (born 30 July 1941) is an Australian former
rugby league
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player.
A
Tully cane farmer, Crema is one of five siblings born to Italian migrants and began playing rugby league while boarding at
Downlands College in Toowoomba. He spent his entire first-grade career with Tully.
Crema, a forward, was a regular Far North Queensland, North Queensland and Queensland representative player during the 1960s. He also made a single Test match appearance for
Australia
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when he was chosen to replace
Arthur Beetson
Arthur Henry "Artie" Beetson Medal of the Order of Australia, OAM (21 January 1945 – 1 December 2011 in the second-row for their series opener against
Great Britain
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at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1966.
In 2008, Crema was named in the North Queensland Team of the Century.
References
External links
Angelo Cremaat Rugby League Project
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1941 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
Australia national rugby league team players
Queensland rugby league team players
Rugby league second-rows
Rugby league players from Queensland
People educated at Downlands College
People from Tully, Queensland
Australian people of Italian descent
20th-century Australian sportsmen