Club Career
He was graded in 1960 to the Dragons third grade side and towards of the end of the 1960 season played five games on the wing in first grade including the 1960 Grand Final victory over the Eastern Suburbs Roosters in which he scored two tries.
King scored the only try of the 1964 Grand Final at the end of an extraordinary passage of play. The Balmain Tigers were desperately defending their own line five minutes into the second half when they were awarded a relieving penalty. Their kicker, Bob Boland, failed to find touch by inches as the ball fell into the outstretched hands of Saints fullback Graeme Langlands who then raced across field and sent a long cut-out pass to Billy Smith 25 yards out from the tryline. Smith off-loaded to King, who sped the remaining 20 yards down the left wing and scored a diving try.
King played 191 games for the Dragons between 1960 and 1971 scoring 143 tries - a club record at the time. He played in seven of the premiership decider victories and holds the distinctive record of scoring six tries over six consecutive winning Grand Final appearances from 1960 to 1965. He was the NSW Rugby League's leading try-scorer in the 1961 (20 tries) and 1965 (15 tries) seasons.
He retired after one match of the 1971 season following a driving accident in which he suffered three crushed vertebrae.
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