Billy Cann

Who was Billy Cann?

Wiliam A. "Billy" Cann was an Australian rugby league footballer for South Sydney and Australia. He primarily played at lock and is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. In 1907 he played for New South Wales in the very first rugby match run by the newly created 'New South Wales Rugby Football League' which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union. Cann was also a long-term administrator at Souths and a football journalist.