the greatest try scorer ever seen was a skinny winger who'd debuted for Eastern Suburbs in Sydney, later to become Sydney Roosters, in 1942. That man was Brian Earl Bevan. With on 8 games for Sydney he arrived on these shores from the Australian Navy and offered his services to Leeds. They considered him too skinny to play Rugby League, so another former Wire and Eastern Suburbs player Bill Shankland advised him to try Wilderspool. So he went for a trial at Warrington who snapped him up after his first A team match. 18 seasons and 740 Warrington tries later, he had proved himself to be, if not the best player ever, then arguably the best winger and most certainly, by at least 200 tries, the sports greatest ever try scorer. 740 tries for Wire in 620 games, then another 17 in 42 games for Blackpool. Although he never played for Australia, because he played in this country, but he did play against them. And scored. Obviously. He did though play for Other Nationalities and British Empire teams 18 times, scoring 29 tries. It's hard to describe what a phenomenon he was. It wasn't just his overall speed, but his speed off the mark, with in three or four strides he was at full speed and then there was no catching him. He could side step at full speed and not lose a yard. Embarrassing international players with his sublime skill. So watch this and see what you think, as footage of 'The Old Man' is very rare
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