Frank Burge - Records and Accolades

Records and Accolades

He was the NSW Rugby Football League's top try-scorer in 1915, 1916 and 1918 an extremely rare feat in even one year for a forward. In the 1920 season, he was the League's top point scorer.

He holds the standing record for tries in a match set when he scored eight in a club match for Glebe in 1920. His career tally of 146 first grade tries stood for eighty years as the highest by a forward until Steven Menzies broke it in 2004. He maintained an average of a try a game for seventeen seasons scoring 218 tries in 213 senior matches with 146 coming from his 154 Sydney first grade matches. That try-scoring tally today stands at eighth on an all-time list dominated by backs.

In 2004 he was admitted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame.

In February 2008, Frank Burge was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. Burge went on to be named as an interchange player in Australian rugby league's Team of the Century. Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players.

In 2008 New South Wales announced their rugby league team of the century, naming Burge at prop.