The book is called A Long Time Between Drinks, written by well known sports personality and Corrimal true believer Barry Ross.

Cougars' life member Phil Jackson, who owns and operates Coastline Printing with his brother Barry Jackson and Ross Freestone, produced the centenary book.

League legend Johnny Raper was a special guest at the launch.

Ross, who lives in Sydney but retains a close association with Corrimal where he played rugby league in the 1960s, agreed that writing A Long Time Between Drinks was a "labour of love".

A keen historian and writer, Ross was able to find out many interesting facts about Corrimal's 100 years in rugby league including the four Jolliffe brothers - Thomas, Albert, John and Sydney - who first played together for Corrimal in a game against Unanderra on June 7, 1913. Corrimal won 2-0.

"I suspect this is the first time that four brothers played rugby league together at any club," Ross said.

Corrimal's first major representative player was fullback Arthur "Dooley" Lear in 1920 who was later a top lawn bowler. Legendary sportsman Bob Bignell, who captained the Australian football team at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, was the five-eighth in Corrimal's premiership-winning 1948 rugby league side and he had offers to join St George and North Sydney as well as playing representative cricket and later becoming a leading greyhound trainer and owner.

Over the years Corrimal's most illustrious players include four times St George premiership halfback George Evans, New Zealand international prop Oscar Danielson who captained the Cougars to the 1974 premiership, Australian international front-rower Craig Young and his St George premiership team-mate John Jansen.