Ross McKinnon

Ross McKinnon

Personal information
Full name	Ross Lachlan McKinnon
Born	(1914-04-15)15 April 1914 Oberon, New South Wales
Died	25 May 1962(1962-05-25) (aged 48) Camperdown, New South Wales
Playing information
Position	Centre, Five-eighth
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1933–34 Sydney University 18 1 2 0 7 1935–38 Eastern Suburbs 23 9 11 0 49 1939–4? Cessnock Total 41 10 13 0 56 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1933–37 New South Wales 7 0 2 0 4 1935–37 City NSW 3 1 3 0 9 1935–38 Australia 8 3 0 0 9 1939–40 Country NSW 2 1 4 0 11
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 1946–47 Canterbury-Bankstown 32 21 2 9 66 1952–53 North Sydney 36 21 1 14 58 1959 North Sydney 18 9 9 50 Total 86 51 3 32 59
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Ross McKinnon (1914-1962) was an Australian

Playing career

McKinnon, who attended

After McKinnon finished playing in Australia's major rugby league competition – the NSWRL he moved to the more rural locality of Cessnock, New South Wales where the Centre played out the remainder of his career as the captain coach of that side. He took them to a Newcastle Rugby League's grand final victory in 1941.^[5]

Post playing

McKinnon later returned to Sydney and coached Canterbury-Bankstown, taking them to the play-offs in 1946 and in 1947 to the Grand final.^[6] He also coached North Sydney in 1952, 1953 and 1959.

In 1962, at the age of 48, following an operation on a brain tumor he died of coronary occlusion.^[7]

Although he was married twice, McKinnon was never able to have children due to injuries.

References

Sporting positions
Preceded by Trevor Allan 1958	Coach North Sydney 1959	Succeeded by Greg Hawick 1960
Preceded by Laurie Doran 1951	Coach North Sydney 1952–1953	Succeeded by Rex Harrison 1954-1955
Preceded by Bill Kelly 1945	Coach Canterbury-Bankstown 1946–1947	Succeeded by Arthur Halloway 1948

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