Vic Hey

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Vic Hey

Personal information
Full name	Victor Hey
Date of birth	1912
Place of birth	Sydney, Australia
Position	Five-eighth
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
1933-35 1936 1937-4? ???? ???? 1948-49	Western Suburbs Ipswich Leeds Dewsbury Hunslet Parramatta	26 (56) ?? 145 (?) ?? ?? 10 (9)
Representative teams**
1933-35 1936 1933-36	New South Wales Queensland Australia	11 (27) 3 (0) 6 (6)
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only and correct as of 25 August 2006. ** Representative team caps and points correct as of 25 August 2006.

Vic Hey (born in Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) was a rugby league player for the Western Suburbs Magpies, Parramatta Eels, New South Wales and for the Australian national side. His position of choice was as a five-eighth.

Contents 1 Western Suburbs 2 Leeds 3 Dewsbury 4 Hunslet 5 Parramatta 6 Representative career 6.1 New South Wales 6.2 Queensland 6.3 Australia 7 Coaching career 8 Life after rugby

[edit] Western Suburbs

Vic Hey began his first grade career with the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1933. In 1934, Hey was involved in his clubs premiership winning year.

[edit] Leeds

Vic Hey briefly played for Ipswich before moving to Leeds. His Leeds debut came against Hunslet on the 21st August 1937. During his time at Leeds he helped them to two successive Challenge Cup wins. One in 1941 and one in 1942. After his spell at Leeds he moved to Dewsbury.

[edit] Dewsbury

Hey signed for Dewsbury. After his spell with the club, he moved on to play for Hunslet.

[edit] Hunslet

Vic Hey played for Hunslet before moving back to Australia to play for Parramatta.

[edit] Parramatta

Vic Hey signed for Parramatta in 1948 where he was immediately appointed as club captain. He was also signed as not only a player but also a coach. He spent two seasons before retiring from playing first grade rugby league.

[edit] Representative career

[edit] New South Wales

After making just 6 first grade appearances with Western Suburbs, Hey was called up to represent New South Wales. He made a total of 11 appearances for New South Wales between 1933 and 1935, scoring 9 tries which is was at the time a total of 27 points.

[edit] Queensland

Hey then went on to represent Queensland in 1936 on 3 occasions, although he never managed to score a single point for the state.

[edit] Australia

In the 1933-34 season, Hey was a late selection for the Kangaroos tour after he replaced Ernie Norman who had failed a fitness test. On that tour he played in all three test matches against England, partnering his Western Suburbs teammate Les Mead. In 1936, he was again selected for another three test matches against England.

[edit] Coaching career

Vic Hey coached Parramatta between 1948 and 1953. He then went on to coach Canterbury between 1955 and 1956 and later Western Suburbs between 1958 and 1959. He was appointed Australian coach and in 1950 he coached his country to their first Ashes victory in thirty years. The following year the French national side defeated Australia in a three test match series in Australia. Hey also coached Australia in the 1954 Ashes series, in which Australia again won the series, although the following year his side lost again to the French and afterwards he decided to resign as the coach of Australia.

[edit] Life after rugby

Hey died in 1995. For his achievements in rugby league, Vic Hey was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame in 2004