Peter Moscatt
{{Short description|Australian rugby league footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Use Australian English|date=April 2019}}
{{Infobox rugby league biography
| name = Peter Moscatt
| fullname = Charles Peter Moscatt
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| birth_date = 16 March 1943
| birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2019|8|23|1943|3|16}}
| death_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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| position = {{Rlp|HK}}
| club1 = Eastern Suburbs
| year1start = 1969
| year1end = 75
| appearances1 = 83
| tries1 = 7
| goals1 = 0
| fieldgoals1 = 0
| points1 = 21
| updated = 27 December 2019
}}
Charles "Peter" Moscatt (1943 - 23 August 2019){{cite web |title=Death Notice: Charles Moscatt |url=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/105659/charles-moscat/ |publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=2 September 2019}} was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1960s and 1970s. He played for Eastern Suburbs in the New South Wales Rugby League competition. Post-football he was an ardent and active local government councillor in the Waverley municipality in Sydney.
Playing career
A Bondi local, Moscatt played his junior rugby league with the Charing Cross club in Waverley before coming through Eastern Suburbs junior ranks. He played a season of Group 8 rugby league with Queanbeyan before a season with Leeds in England[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-757993119/view?sectionId=nla.obj-759080269&partId=nla.obj-758005964#page/n13/mode/1up Moscatt early career] in the 1965/66 northern winter.[https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1960s/1965-1966/ Moscatt at Leeds Rhinos]
Moscatt made his first grade debut for Eastern Suburbs in 1969 establishing himself as the club's first choice hooker. In 1972, Eastern Suburbs reached the grand final against Manly-Warringah. Moscatt played at hooker in the game which Easts lost 19–14, to see Manly win their first ever premiership.
In 1974, Moscatt missed the entire season as Eastern Suburbs finished as minor premiers under the arrival of coach Jack Gibson. Easts reached the 1974 NSWRL grand final and won their first premiership in 29 years defeating Canterbury 19–4 at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Moscatt lost his place at hooker that season with Gibson preferring Elwyn Walters who had joined the club from rivals South Sydney. In 1975, Eastern Suburbs went on to claim the minor premiership and reached the NSWRFL grand final and won their second straight premiership defeating St George 38–0. Moscatt played only one first grade game for Easts in that 1975 season.
At the end of 1975, Moscatt departed Eastern Suburbs and returned to Queanbeyan for a final season in the country rugby league competition under his old coach Don Furner.Alan Whiticker/Glen Hudson: The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. (1995 edition) {{ISBN|1875169571}}{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-01/rugby-league27s-greatest-drought-breakers/5781544/|title=NRL Grand Final: South Sydney Rabbitohs looking to join rugby league's greatest drought breakers|website=www.abc.net.au}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nrl.com/operations/the-game/premiership-records/|title=PREMIERSHIP RECORDS|website=www.nrl.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/chooks-to-fly-arties-1975-side-to-funeral/news-story/571648c5a1aed77a278e364a97291baa?sv=d674c5b651c320a791855ceaf82443f4/|title=Sydney Roosters to fly 1975 premiership winning team to Arthur Beetson's funeral|website=www.dailytelegraph.com.au}}{{cite web|url=https://www.roosters.com.au/about/past-players/|title=Men's Honour Roll|website=Sydney Roosters}}{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-03/manly27s-1972-premiership-a-breakthrough-for-sea-eagles/4996292/|title=Manly Sea Eagles v Sydney Roosters re-igniting a 70s classic|website=www.abc.net.au}}
Post football
During his playing career Moscatt had been a beach inspector and then worked in Sydney's rag-trade as a men's fashion sales representative.[https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/sydney-roosters-rugby-league-legend-peter-moscatt-dies/f14118a6-99a5-4542-873b-a3e68d0e19e5 Moley remembers Moscatt] Post-playing he worked as a butcher and a meat wholesaler. In 1970 Moscatt married Margaret Peard, a school teacher and the sister of his Roosters team-mate John Peard.[https://bondisurfclub.com/1962/06/07/an-unreliable-history-john-peard-the-bondi-bomber/ Moscatt & Peard]
Moscatt was politically active. He served as President of the Rugby League Players Association in the early 1990s, had a long association with that organisation and was awarded a Life Membership in 2005.[https://www.rlpa.com.au/vale-peter-moscatt/ In Memoriam RLPA] In the 1990s he was a Councillor in the Waverley municipality in Sydney, drove for environmental reforms and affordable housing initiatives.
He was the Waverley Mayor in 2004 when that council became one of the first in Australia to introduce a smoking ban on its beaches.{{cite web |title=Smoking on Bondi beach now banned |date=17 December 2004 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505182800/https://www.smh.com.au/national/smoking-on-bondi-beach-now-banned-20041217-gdkc3f.html |archive-date=5 May 2021 |url-status=live |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/smoking-on-bondi-beach-now-banned-20041217-gdkc3f.html}}[http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/18257/The_Mayors_of_Waverley_Council_rev2017.pdf Mayors of Waverley] In memoriam Moscatt was described as "social justice warrior" who "stuck up for workers and battlers".
Death
Moscatt died on 23 August 2019 in Sydney.{{cite web|url=https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/12/23/vale-nrl-in-memoriam-2019/|title=Vale: NRL in Memoriam 2019|website=www.nrl.com}} Having donated his brain to research, post-mortem Moscatt was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy by Associate Professor Michael Buckland, head of the RPA neuropathology department and head of the molecular neuropathology program at the Brain and Mind Centre. However Buckland concluded that Moscatt did not die of the CTE and stated that "he suffered few of the other symptoms commonly associated with repeated concussions ...... [and] remained an engaging personality until the end".{{cite web |title=Former Easts star had the same degenerative brain disease as Folkes |date=29 November 2019 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727045942/https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/former-easts-star-had-the-same-degenerative-brain-disease-as-folkes-20191129-p53fgb.html |archive-date=27 July 2023 |url-status=live |url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/former-easts-star-had-the-same-degenerative-brain-disease-as-folkes-20191129-p53fgb.html}}
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