Derek Moritz 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 ...

footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. A specialist winger, Derek Moritz was a Manly junior who was graded at

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL). The Manly club debuted in the 1947 New South Wales Rugby Football League sea ...

in 1967. Moritz played for Manly between 1967 and 1972, and played on the wing in the 1970 Grand Final. He moved to the

North Sydney Bears The North Sydney Bears are an Australian rugby league football club based in Cammeray on Sydney's North Shore (Sydney), North Shore. The club currently competes in the NSW Cup, having exited the National Rugby League following the 1999 NRL s ...

for two seasons between 1973 and 1974 before retiring.Alan Whiticker/Glen Hudson: Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. 1995 ()

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