Veteran hooker, acknowledged as one of the game's fastest strikers of the ball when srummaging was such an important part of the game, played for NSW in 1958 and 1961. After South Africa's disastrous tour of Australia in 1963, Anderson was invited to bolster the South African pack in the one-off Test against NZ (technically becoming the Canterbury club’s first homegrown Test player). Anderson joined Souths the following year and was a member of the team that went down to St George in the 1965 grand final.