Jim Hale
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | James Alfred Hale | |||||
| Born | 1916 | |||||
| Died | 28 December 1992 Sylvania, New South Wales | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Second row forward | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1940 | South Sydney | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1940–47 | St George Dragons | 60 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| 1948–49 | Boorowa Rovers | |||||
| Total | 63 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 63 | |
James Alfred Hale (1916-1992) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s.
Jim Hale was graded with the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 1940 and switched mid-season to join the St George Dragons with whom he played eight seasons between 1940-1947. He is remembered as the second-row forward in the St George side that was defeated in the 1946 Grand Final by Balmain Tigers. At the end of the game, Jim Hale and his team-mate Herb Gilbert, Jr. were involved in a brawl when a spectator jumped on to the Sydney Cricket Ground playing area and punched Hale. The incident almost caused a riot amongst rival players and fans and resulted in a number of arrests by police. Jim Hale, like his father Percy (1887-1953), was an amateur heavy-weight boxer, and the brawl between him and Gilbert was a huge talking point in the Sydney press for days afterward.[1] After retiring from Sydney first grade football, Jim Hale captain coached the Boorowa Rovers Rugby League Club in 1948-1949.[2]
Jim Hale died on 28 December 1992, aged 76.[3]