Angelo Crema

{{Short description|Australian rugby league player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}

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| fullname = Angelo Fiori Crema

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| position = Second-row

|teamA = Queensland

|yearAstart = 1963

|yearAend = 68

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|goalsA = 0

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|pointsA = 12

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|yearBstart = 1966

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Angelo Fiori Crema (born 30 July 1941) is an Australian former rugby league player.

A Tully cane farmer, Crema is one of five siblings born to Italian migrants and began playing rugby league while boarding at Downlands College in Toowoomba. He spent his entire first-grade career with Tully.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122475442 |title=One Moment of Glory |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=28 April 1985 |page=30 (Good Weekend) |via=National Library of Australia}}

Crema, a forward, was a regular Far North Queensland, North Queensland and Queensland representative player during the 1960s. He also made a single Test match appearance for Australia when he was chosen to replace Arthur Beetson in the second-row for their series opener against Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1966.{{cite news |title=Big Change Here Again |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/123489592 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=23 June 1966}}

In 2008, Crema was named in the North Queensland Team of the Century.{{cite news |title=North's legends revealed |url=http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2008/05/31/13529_sport.html |work=Townsville Bulletin |date=31 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725171639/http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2008/05/31/13529_sport.html |archive-date=25 July 2008}}

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