Howard Hallett
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| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Howard Hallett | |
| Date of birth | 1880 | |
| Date of death | 1970 | |
| Nickname(s) | The Rock of Gibraltar | |
| Senior clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (points) |
| 1909–16, 1918–24 | South Sydney | 155 (133) |
| Representative teams | ||
| 1909–1914 1911–1914 |
New South Wales Australia |
17 (16) 6 (3) |
| Professional clubs coached | ||
| 1925–1926 | South Sydney | |
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* Professional club appearances and points |
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Howard Hallett (1880–1970) was an Australian rugby league player and coach for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. Hallett primarily played at fullback. He represented for New South Wales and Australia.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Playing career
Hallett was originally an Australian rules footballer but was graded with Souths in 1908, the first season of rugby league in Australia and made his debut in the first-grade team in 1909.
Hallett was a playing member of three premiership-winning teams; 1909, 1914 and 1918. At the end of the 1914 season, Hallett was awarded a silver belt by the Sanderson Whiskey company as Player of the Season.
[edit] Representative career
Hallett was first selected to play for New South Wales in 1911. In the same year he was selected to tour with the 1911–1912 Australasian Kangaroos, 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.
[edit] Coaching career
Hallett retired from first-grade in 1924 and in 1925 he was back at Souths as coach. He coached the team through their only unbeaten season; twelve games. The final two games of the season were cancelled as Souths sat at the top of the ladder, ten points ahead of their nearest rival.
A four-team semi-finals series, along with other rule changes to speed up the game, was introduced in 1926 in an effort by the NSWRL to attract crowds back to the matches. Hallett once again coached his team to the top of the premiership ladder, with eleven points separating Souths from the Glebe Dirty Reds, and took the team on to win the first finals series.
Hallett retired from coaching at the end of the 1926 season. He died in 1970.
[edit] Accolades
In February 2008, Hallett was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. [1]
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] References
- Whiticker, Alan and Hudson, Glen (2007). The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. Wetherill Park, New South Wales: Gary Allen Pty Ltd, page 214. ISBN 9781877082931.
- Collis, Ian; Whiticker, Alan (2007). 100 Years of Rugby League 1. Chatswood, NSW: New Holland. ISBN 9781741104639.
