Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership, as well as New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions. The club was admitted to the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership, predecessor of the current NRL competition, in 1935. They won their first premiership in their 4th year of competition with another soon after, and later went through a very strong period in the 1980s, winning four premierships in that decade. Known briefly in the 1990s as the Sydney Bulldogs, as a result of the Super League war the club competed in that competition in 1997 before continuing to play every season of the re-unified NRL, winning their most recent premiership in 2004.

Founding
In 1935 – thirteen years after a meeting above "The Ideal Milk Bar" in Campsie led to the creation of the Canterbury-Bankstown Junior Rugby League – the Canterbury club was admitted into the elite New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership. It took the new club, nicknamed "Country Bumpkins" because of their rural recruiting and CB emblem, just three years to win their first premiership in 1938.

Captains
Tom Carey - 1935

Jack Morrison 1935

Frank Sponberg 1935

Alan Brady 1936-40

Joe Gartner 1937-39

Henry Porter 1938-39,1946-48

Jack Bonnyman 1940

Ron Bailey 1941-44

Roy Kirkaldy 1943

Lin Johnson 1944

George Kilham 1945,1947

Eddie Burns 1948,1950

Brue Hopkins 1949

Vic Bulgin 1951

Ken Charlton 1951-52,54

Jim Collins 1951

Cec Cooper 1951,1953

Ron Willey 1951

Col Cooper 1953

Leo Trevena 1954

Ray Gartner 1955,1958-59,1962-64

Col Geelan 1956-

Alan Lynch 1957

Ken Rowlands 1958-59

Brian Davies 1959-

Ray Beaven 1962

Fred Anderson 1963

Les Johns 1964-65

Doug McManus 1964

Keith Glen 1965

Leo Toohey 1965

Roger Pearman 1966

George Taylforth 1966

Kevin Ryan 1967-

Bob Hagan 1969

Ron Raper 1970-71

Alan Burwall 1971-72

Terry Reynolds 1971

John Greaves 1972

Geoff Connell 1973

John McDonell 1973-74

Doug Laughton 1974

Barry Phillis 1974

Mick Adams 1975

Bill Noonan 1975,77

John Peek 1975

Tim Pickup 1975,77-78

Bob McCarthy 1976-77

Phil Charlton 1977

Garry Hughes 1977,79,81-83

George Peponis 1978-82

Chris Anderson 1981,84

Graeme Hughes 1981

Mark Hughes 1981

Tas Baiteri 1983

Steve Folkes 1984-88

Terry Lamb 1984,86,89-91,93-

Steve Mortimer 1984-88

Phil Gould 1985

Peter Tunks 1985-89

Andrew Farrar 1988

Paul Langmack 1989

Bruce McGuire 1991-92

Kevin Moore 1992

Dean Pay 1993-

Simon Gillies 1995-

Darren Britt 1996,98-01

Jason Hetherington 1998

Ricky Stuart 1999-2000

Craig Polla Mounter 2001

Glen Hughes 2002

Steve Price 2002-04

Darren Smith 2002

Braith Anasta 2003-05

Andrew Ryan 2004-11

Michael Ennis 2012-