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On this day, Ted Glossop dies and Stacey Jones receives national honour.

As part of a series looking back at four decades of State of Origin football, NRL.com revisits 1981, where Wally Lewis succeeded Big Artie as Maroons captain and proved the historic win in the first ever Origin the year before had been no fluke.

It was the first time State of Origin went to a three-game series but still NSW couldn't win.

Dubbed 'The Entertainers', the Canterbury side which went all the way in 1980 to deliver the club its third premiership featured the three Mortimer brothers and the three Hughes boys. Steve, Peter and Chris Mortimer joined forces with Graeme, Mark and Garry Hughes to create a special piece of rugby league history as a brash young Canterbury side charged from eighth at the halfway point of the season to win 13 of their last 15 games and take the title. Canterbury arrived at a sun-drenched SCG on September 27, 1980 brimming with confidence after beating Easts 13-7 in the major semi-final a fort...

The last time Trent Barrett tasted victory as an NRL head coach was August 11, 2018, when the club he formerly coached, Manly, beat his current club, Canterbury. It was one of only seven wins for Barrett in a troubled season which would prove to be last at Brookvale, despite the fact he still had a year to run on his contract. Now in his second coming as an NRL coach, the former Dally M Medal winner who played 235 first-grade games, 15 Tests and 11 Origins must summon every bit of his footy nous and fighting spirit to get his side out of the 0-3 hole they have dug for themselves.