Season Summary
1966 was the last season played under the unlimited tackle rule. Balmain, with their talented raw rookie recruit Arthur Beetson, appeared to be about to topple the Dragons from their long-held perch when the Tigers won eleven consecutive regular season games. However a late season slump saw them pegged back to the rest of the field and an eventual second place on the minor-premiership ladder behind the Dragons, who were being led by new captain-coach Ian Walsh.
The Eastern Suburbs Roosters did not win a single match in 1966, continuing a losing streak that started in round 14, 1965 and which would run till round 12, 1967. This marked the second-most consecutive losses in NSWRFL premiership history at 25 behind University's 42 in the mid-1930s.
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