Peter Dimond

Who is Peter Dimond?

Peter Dimond is a former Australian rugby league footballer who played his club rugby league for Western Suburbs. Born in Dapto, New South Wales, he is the younger brother of Bobby Dimond. Peter was named both in the Western Suburbs Team of the Century and the Wests Tigers Team of the Century.

Dimond was selected at age 13 in a New South Wales schoolboy side in a curtain raiser to the 1952 Australia and New Zealand Test match.

While still a teenager, Dimond was selected to represent Australia in three test matches against Great Britain. Peter Dimond joined Western Suburbs in 1958. He played in all four of the club's grand final losses to the great St. George side. They lost 20-9 in 1958 with Dimond playing five-eighth, 22-0 in 1961, 9-6 in 1962 and 8-3 in 1963.

He was called up to play on the Kangaroo tour in 1963-64 where he played in all six test matches. His tour highlight being his two tries in his country's 50-12 victory at Station Road, Swinton near Manchester that was dubbed the 'Swinton Massacre' and it was also the match that secured the Ashes for Australia on British soil for the first time.