Howard Hallett
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| Full name | George Ernest Howard Hallett | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 April 1890 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 May 1970 (aged 80) Maroura, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (12 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Fullback, Centre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Howard Hallett (1890–1970) was an Australian
New South Wales and Australia and is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century[4]
Playing career
Hallett was originally an
1918. At the end of the 1914 season, Hallett was awarded a silver belt by the Sanderson Whiskey company as Player of the Season. Hallett was first selected to play for New South Wales in 1911. In the same year he was selected to tour with the 1911–12 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, making his debut playing against the Northern Union at Newcastle as a centre and scoring his one and only test try. He played the remaining two tests at fullback. Hallett toured with New South Wales to New Zealand in both the 1913 inaugural tour and 1914. Hallett's final year as a member of the national team was in 1914 when the Northern Union toured Australia.[5]
In a game against Western Suburbs in 1924, Hallett was involved in a heavy collision, fracturing his jaw. Weeks later, he had surgery on his jaw. The scalpel from the surgeon however, left a permanent mark on the side of his face.[6]
Coaching career
Hallett retired from first-grade in 1924 and in
finals series
. Hallett retired from coaching at the end of the 1926 season.
After football
Hallett's son, Howard Hallett Jnr, played 7 seasons for South Sydney between 1940 and 1949.
Hallett died on 28 May 1970.
In February 2008, Hallett was named in the list of Australia's
ARL
to
celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.[7]
Footnotes
- Whiticker, Alan; Hudson, Glen (2007). The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. ISBN 978-1-877082-93-1.
- Collis, Ian; Whiticker, Alan (2007). 100 Years of Rugby League. Vol. 1. Chatswood, NSW: New Holland. ISBN 978-1-74110-463-9.
References
- ^ Rugby League Project
- ^ "Yesterday's Hero". Archived from the original on 31 August 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2009.
- ^ Rugby League Project Coaching
- ^ Century's Top 100 Players Archived 25 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "South Sydney Rabbitohs Rugby League Player Report – Howard Hallett". ssralmanac.com.
- ^ "Vol. 8 No. 3 (April 30, 1927)". Trove. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ARL. 23 February 2008. Archived from the originalon 26 February 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
External links
- (archived by web.archive.org) Statistics at nrlstats.com
- (archived by web.archive.org) Coach Statistics at nrlstats.com