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| Born | (1973-01-31) 31 January 1973 (age 51) Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 107 kg (16 st 12 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Prop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rodney Howe (born 31 January 1973) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played in the forwards for the Newcastle Knights, Western Reds, Melbourne Storm, New South Wales and the Australian national side.
Early life
Born in Newcastle, New South Wales. Howe was educated at St Francis Xavier's College, Hamilton, where he represented 1990 Australian Schoolboys.
Career
In 1998 Howe was banned for 22 matches for using stanozolol.
Howe played at prop forward for Melbourne in their victory in the 1999 NRL Grand Final.
In 2000 Howe was named the Melbourne Storm's player of the year. In 2001, Howe won a special sports edition of the Australian game show The Weakest Link, defeating Kangaroos AFL player David King, winning $46,300 in total winnings and donating it towards the Cancer Council of Victoria. It was, at the time one of the highest ever scores achieved on the show.
Howe was again named the Storm's player of the year in 2002.
References
- Rugby League Project
- "SportingPulse Homepage for Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League". SportingPulse. Retrieved 10 October 2008.
- Hooper, James (5 October 2006). "Webcke defends 'cover-up'". Fox Sports. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- melbournestorm.com.au. "NRL Honour Board". Club. Melbourne Storm. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013.
- 2002 Melbourne Storm Info Guide. Melbourne Storm. p. 123.
- "Recent news | AFANA".
External links
| Melbourne Storm squad - 1999 NRL premiers (1st title) | |
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| Inaugural Melbourne Storm side | |
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| v Illawarra Steelers, WIN Stadium, 14 March 1998 | |
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| Inaugural Western Reds side | |
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| v St. George Dragons, WACA Ground, 12 March 1995 | |
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- Australia national rugby league team players
- Australian rugby league players
- Australian sportspeople in doping cases
- Doping cases in Australian rugby league
- Doping cases in rugby league
- Melbourne Storm players
- New South Wales Rugby League State of Origin players
- Newcastle Knights players
- Rugby league props
- Rugby league players from Newcastle, New South Wales
- Western Reds players
- Australian rugby league biography, 1970s birth stubs