Joe Shakespeare (1883–1935) was a

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 in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL)'s foundation season of 1908. Joseph Shakespear played for the Eastern Suburbs club. He was also a boxing promoter, referee, and an Alderman at

Cessnock, New South Wales Cessnock () is a city in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, about by road west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle. It is the administrative centre of the City of Cessnock Local government in Australia, LGA and was named afte ...

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* The Eastern Suburbs club website Australian rugby league players Sydney Roosters players 1883 births 1935 deaths Place of birth missing 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyleague-bio-1880s-stub