Arthur Halloway

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fullname = Arthur Halloway
nickname = Pony


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Arthur 'Pony' Halloway (1885 - 1961) (born in Sydney, New South Wales) was a pioneering Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the Glebe Dirty Reds (1908), Balmain Tigers (1909–1911 and 1915–1920) and Eastern Suburbs (1912–1914), in the New South Wales Rugby League competition.

He was a Half-back for the Australian national team. He played in ten Tests between 1908 and 1919, as captain on three occasions in 1919. Halloway was nicknamed 'Pony', but despite his small stature he was recognised as one of the fiercest competitors to play the game and one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century [ [http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players Century's Top 100 Players] ]

Biography

Playing career

Arthur was playing rugby union with Easts in Sydney when the defections to rugby league commenced in 1908. He was recruited by the Glebe club after taking part in the rebel series against Baskerville's New Zealand 'All Golds'. Late in the 1908 season Halloway was selected to go away on the inaugural Kangaroo Tour . He playing 29 matches on tour including the 1st Anglo-Australian Test in London.

Earlier that year Halloway made his Test debut in Australia's 14-9 win in the 3rd Test in Sydney in 1908, the 3rd ever international league fixture in which Australia took part.

The arrival of the 2nd wave of Wallaby defectors in 1909 pushed Halloway down the representative pecking order and for the next five years he maintained a regular rivalry for the Australian half-back position with former Wallaby captain Chris McKivat.

In 1910 Halloway moved to the Balmain club for three seasons, from where he also continued his representative career, making his second Kangaroo tour in 1911. He played in 12 tour matches but no Tests with McKivat the preferred Test half-back.

He joined the Eastern Suburbs club 1912 where he won back to back premierships in 1912 and 1913 as well as being a member of the City Cup Winning Side in 1914.

Following McKivat's retirement he became the preferred half back in the 1914 Ashes series.

Halloway returned to Balmain in 1915 where he won further premierships in 1915, '16, '17, '19 and 1920 as captain and captain-coach from 1916.

His first appearance as captain of the Kangaroos was on the 1919 tour of New Zealand when he captained the side to a 2-1 tour victory. Throughout his playing career Halloway played in over 100 representative matches, including ten tests for Australia. He made over 30 appearances for NSW as well as six for Queensland.

He later moved to Queensland and represented that state in one game in 1921.

He was the only man to be part of all of Australia's first three tours - the first two Kangaroo tours and the 1919 trip to New Zealand] . Along with Billy Cann, Dan Frawley and Tedda Courtney he was one of four men to make all three of the tours made between 1908 and 1912 by Australian or New South Welsh teams.

Character & playing style

The story is recounted of him chopping off a finger in a work related accident one Saturday morning, then leading his club side, Balmain, to victory that afternoon with his hand swathed in a blood-stained bandage.

Halloway was a consummate team man, a sound defender and an opportunistic half-back capable of opening up an opposition worn down by heavy forward clashes with impeccable service to his outside backs.

Coaching career

After retirement as a player he coached in the country league at Parkes, then Lismore and also the Newtown club for a season in 1923. He returned to Sydney in the 30s and won three premierships as coach of the Roosters from 1935 to 1937. He coached Norths from 1940 to 1941; Canterbury in 1948 and won another premiership coaching Easts in 1945.

Accolades

All up Pony Halloway went on four overseas playing tours. He won seven premierships as a player and four as a coach. He was involved in the game at the top level either as player or coach in a career spanning 37 years.

In 2007 he was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame. [ [http://rl1908.com/Hoffame/index.htm Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame] ] . In February 2008, Halloway 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. [cite web|publisher="NRL & ARL"|title=Centenary of Rugby League - The Players
url=http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/the-players.aspx?cat=3&list=true|accessdate=2008-02-23|date=2008-02-23]

Footnotes

References

* Alan Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen 'The Encyclopedia Of Rugby League Players'
* Whiticker, Alan (2004) "Captaining the Kangaroos", New Holland, Sydney
* Andrews, Malcom (2006) "The ABC of Rugby League" Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
* [http://www.qrl.com.au/qrl_history/qld_rep_h.php Queensland representatives at qrl.com.au]