Charlie Montgomery

Charlie Montogmery
Personal information
Full name Charles Montgomery
Born  Australia
Playing information
Position Prop forward
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1941–1942 St George Dragons 32 10 1 32
1944–1945 Newtown 22 2 6
Total 54 12 1 0 38

Charles 'Charlie ' Montgomery was an Australian rugby league player of the 1940s. He was a premiership winning prop-forward with the St George Dragons and finished his career with Newtown.

Charlie Montgomery played two seasons with St George Dragons between 1941-1942, and played in the front-row in their victorious 1941 Grand Final. [1]He then moved to Newtown, where he played another two seasons between 1944-1945. He made another Grand Final appearance at prop-forward in the Blue-Bags side that lost the 1944 Grand Final to Balmain. Both sides had been accused of "dogging-it" in the Final where they met, and allowing Balmain to win so that they would need to meet in a Grand Final a week later. [2]

Charlie Montgomery (middle 2nd from left) in St. George's 1941 premiership team

References

  1. Alan Whiticker/Glen Hudson - The Encyclopdeia of Rugby League Players, 1995 (ISBN 1875169571)
  2. Haddan p90
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