High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wally Prigg (1908 1980) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a lock forward for the Australian national rugby league team. He played 19 Tests for the Kangaroos between 1929 38, 7 as captain and has since been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.Wally Prigg was one of the greatest forwards in the history of rugby league. He spent his whole career as a Newcastle Wests and Central Charlestown player. He was the first New South Wales country based player to captain the Australian national rugby league team.