Jack Gibson's Fur Coat

Glen Humphries

• Publisher: Gelding Street Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781923009141
• Year: 2023

Full of tales about rugby league's unusual artefacts, biggest characters and strangest occurrences.

If rugby league buried a time capsule Jack Gibson's fur coat would be the first item placed inside - if you could solve the mystery of its whereabouts.League's precious artefacts include Thurston's headgear, Langland's white boots, Reggie the Rabbit's tail and a snag from the Dragon's season-ending BBQ. Or you could fill it with stories of players who were poisoned, didn't show for the grand final or took the field drunk.In Jack Gibson's Fur Coat, Glen Humphries tells the stories that live on the margins. You simply couldn't make up rugby league's best yarns.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Dedication
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1: A one-sided premiership decider
• 2: League rules
• 3: A league of their own
• 4: The big ban
• 5: Football under lights
• 6: The worst team ever
• 7: Fortnight of floggings
• 8: Fixing the game?
• 9: Bumper and the ear bite
• 10: Footy fighters
• 11: What happens on tour …
• 12: Drunk
• 13: Murder and the mother-in-law
• 14: Beating the ref
• 15: American All-Stars
• 16: A very bad year
• 17: The end
• 18: The trials of Dennis Tutty
• 19: Walkout
• 20: Sattler’s jaw
• 21: The League-A-Thon
• 22: The low-scoring Jets
• 23: The replacements
• 24: What a tackle
• 25: Free the 33
• 26: Betting on the best and fairest
• 27: The American league
• 28: The mouth of the man
• 29: A bum rap
• 30: Headgear
• 31: The C word
• 32: The season-ending BBQ
• 33: Gimmicks
• 34: What’s in a name?
• 35: Afterword
• Bibliography
• About the author