Patrick McCue

Paddy McCue
1908 Wallaby
Full name Patrick Aloysius McCue[1][2]
Date of birth 24 June 1883(1883-06-24)[1]
Place of birth Sydney, NSW
Date of death 10 September 1962(1962-09-10) (aged 79)[1]
Place of death Cronulla
Rugby league career
Position Second Rower
Professional clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1910–16 Newtown Bluebags 81 (116)
State Representation
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1911–12 New South Wales 2 (6)
National teams
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1911–14 Australia 4 (6)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position lock[1]
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team
Newtown RUFC
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1907–08 Wallabies 4 (0)
Olympic medal record
Men's Rugby union
Gold 1908 London Team competition

Patrick Aloysius "Paddy" McCue (24 June 1883 – 10 September 1962) was an Australian representative rugby union player and pioneer rugby league player. He was a dual-code rugby international and an Olympic gold medallist.

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Rugby union career

A forward with the Newtown Rugby Union club in Sydney, McCue was selected on the first Wallaby tour of England in 1908–1909, the squad captained by Herbert Moran. That side competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and McCue was a member of the Australia national rugby union team captained by Chris McKivat which won the gold medal.

Rugby league club career

Along with fourteen of his Olympic Wallaby team-mates on his return to Australia he negotiated to take part in promotional matches against the Pioneer Kangaroos and was promptly banned from the amateur code by the Metropolitan Rugby Union. McCue and a number of the rebels joined the Newtown club in Sydney in 1910 and helped the club win premiership honours that year. They included gold medallist Wallabies John "Jumbo" Barnett and Charles "Boxer" Russell. McCue played seven seasons with Newtown and after retiring as a player was assistant coach of the University club in its inaugural first grade season of 1920.

In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, McCue was named in the Newtown Jets 18-man team of the century.

Rugby league representative career

McCue was selected to represent New South Wales in 1911 and later led New South Wales as captain on the 1912-13 tour of New Zealand.

He was selected on the 1911-12 Kangaroo tour of England which was an Australasian squad including four New Zealanders. McCue made his international rugby league debut in the first Test of 1911 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and played in all three Tests of the series, as well as in twenty other minor tour matches, scoring seven tries all told on the tour. His final international appearance was in the first test of the 1914 domestic Ashes series.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d "Scrum.com player profile of Paddy McCue". Scrum.com. http://www.scrum.com/australia/rugby/player/1906.html. Retrieved 12 July 2010. 
  2. ^ other sources report his date of birth 1 June 1883