sentences:  This season Parramatta front-rower and captain Ray Higgs won both the Rothmans Medal and the "Rugby League Week" player of the year award.The 1976 season also saw the retirement from the League of future Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame inductee, Graeme Langlands.Parramatta were first into the Grand Final, triumphing 23–17 in a bloody and brutal major semi-final against Manly.