Benny Wearing was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. An Australian international and New South Wales representative three-quarter, he played his club football in the NSWRFL Premiership for the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Wearing was the third player in Australian rugby league history to score 100 premiership tries. Benny Wearing was one of the superstars of rugby league for many years, in fact for 50 years he held the record for the most games played for Souths.

The story begins in 1920 when he entered grade for the first time. Prior to that he played for Redfern Iona and Christian Bros school at Waverley. He then quickly went into first grade the next year. In 1923 he played state football and was a reserve for the test team in 1924. He played in many South Sydney premiership winning teams as well as many state and other representative teams but only represented Australia once. Benny Wearing made the chip and chase to scoop up for a try his trademark. Once he did it in his only test match running around Jim Sullivan, the most brilliant English fullback of all time.

The tragedy of great winger Benny Wearing's career was that while he was a record-maker at Souths, and the ‘people's champion’ in the Sydney premiership, he only made the one Test appearance. A great goal-kicker with a good short kicking game, Wearing played for NSW between 1924-28 and won seven premiership titles with Souths (1925-29 & 1931-32) but was constantly overlooked for Test duty.

After the Australian Board of Control did not go ahead with the 1926-27 Kangaroo Tour, Wearing was expected to be one of the first players selected in the Test series against England in 1928. He was not chosen for the first two Tests but he was just too good to leave out of the Third Test. Wearing scored the then individual points record (12pts - 2 tries, 3 goals) in Australia's only win of the series, but was again omitted when the Kangaroos squad was selected the following year. He retired in 1933 with a club record 144 tries to his credit – a record that stood until Nathan Merritt bettered it and Alex Johnstone, who stands on 194 tries and is still playing.

South Sydney supporters went to games every week expecting some breathtaking moment of excitement and were rarely disappointed when Benny was playing. Benny Wearing went on to play until 1933, had a testimonial in 1934 and passed away in 1968. Wearing was a superstar in his time, one of South Sydney’s greatest players and should never be forgotten.