If he had played in these days he would have earned a small fortune.
As it was then (for all players)the money was not great most of it generated was put back in the boardroom coffers.
Sad to say he ended up as a security man on Portsmouth shipyard until he retired.
But he enriched a whole generation with wonderful memories !

Another great story but lack of Aussie history would be a handicap and almost like an admission that a UK immortal is better than an Aussie...I don't think they'd stomach it.

Isn’t 740 tries in a career by far the record for a player in either code of rugby?

I think for the convenience of the Twickers Brigade ,a record like Bevan's would be airbrushed out of the history of "Rugby".

I was intrigued so I googled "most tries in rugby career".As expected the results were dominated by rugby union stats. However, fair play to them, the results related to international tries not club tries, which makes sense as the standard of club rugby union is pretty variable.

What. They scored tries in RU Internationals. Hardly correct for the kicking purists