Never a Backward Step: The Story of St Marys Rugby League Club is unique in the annals of Australian sporting success.

From humble beginnings dating back to the birth of the code in 1908, across a century of endeavour St Marys Rugby League has overcome adversity, social change and financial hardship to become the junior rugby league powerhouse that it is today—the largest Junior Rugby League in the world.

The story of St Marys Rugby League has been one hundred years in the making—the Depression and War Years when the proud ‘Green and Whites’ almost didn’t survive; the 1950s, when the Club purchased and developed its own playing fields; the great success of the 1960s; the move into Second Division and Metropolitan Cup competitions; the opening of the Leagues Club in the 1980s and the growth of rugby league in the St Marys district that continues today.

Written by accomplished author Alan Whiticker (The Encyclopedia of Rugby Players, ‘The History of Rugby League Clubs and 100 Years of Rugby League) Never a Backward Step: The Story of St Marys Rugby League Club marks the Centenary of Rugby League in the district.