Footballing Brothers
A number of Raper's brothers had success in top-grade rugby league. Ron played an 128 game career for Canterbury over seven seasons from 1966, kicking a field-goal from the halfway line in their 1967 Grand final loss to South Sydney. He played out the end of his career as Captain/Coach at Wests Brisbane and made two representative appearance for Queensland in 1973.
Maurie Raper played eighty-seven first grade matches for Penrith and Cronulla in an eight year career, Gerard made two first grade appearances for Canterbury in 1977 and Peter, two appearances for Newtown while Michael played in lower grades.
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“They soon became like brothers from community of wrongs;
They wrote each other little odes and sang each other songs;
They told each other anecdotes disparaging their wives;
On several occasions, too, they saved each other’s lives.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)