1909 Eastern Suburbs season

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1909 Eastern Suburbs season
  1908 1910  

The 1909 season was the second in which the Eastern Suburbs DRLFC competed in the New South Wales Rugby Football League competition. They finished the regular season in 4th (of 8) position, before being knocked out in the semi-final by Balmain.

Contents

Players

No.PositionPlayer

1 Harry 'Jersey' Flegg PR (c)3 Dave Brown CE 5 Dan Frawley WG 7 Lou Jones PR 8 Bob Mable PR 9 Larry 'Jersey' O'Malley PR 10 Sid 'Sandy' Pearce HK 11 Albert Rosenfeld FE 13 Johnno Stuntz WG 14 Percy McNamara CE 15 Horrie Miller WG 17 Harold Kelley FE 20 George Green PR 23 Percy White PR 25 Mick Frawley PR 26 Bill King FB

No.PositionPlayer

27 Ted Briscoe PR 28 Tom Bruce HB 29 Eddie Griffiths PR 30 Arthur Lawes SR 31 Arthur 'Wicker' Surridge PR 32 Wally Webb PR 33 Joe Oates SR 34 Billy Flegg SR 35 Arthur Hennessy PR 36 George 'Babe' Hooker SR 37 L. Brown SR 38 Frank Foran SR 39 Lance Abbott WG 40 Fred Denholm PR 41 Henry Kaufman LK 42 Rudolf Lenton PR

Season

RoundOpponentResultScoreDateVenueCrowd
Premiership 1 Glebe Dirty Reds Won38 - 524 AprilWentworth-
Premiership 2 Western Suburbs Magpies Won10 - 21 MayAgricultural400
Premiership 3 North Sydney Bears Won26 - 1615 MayAgricultural
Premiership 4 South Sydney Rabbitohs Lost10 - 2222 MayAgricultural1500

Eastern Suburbs 18 defeated Newcastle Rebels 16 at the Newcastle Sports Ground.

Described this way "As an exhibition the game was all that could have been desired. It was fast, open, exciting and even."

Premiership 6 Newtown Jets Won28-519 JuneAgricultural800
Premiership 7 Balmain Tigers Lost3 - 1126 JuneBirchgrove1500
Premiership 8 South Sydney Rabbitohs Lost5 - 1610 JulyWentworth2500

Balmain 24 (Apploney 2, Moore 2, Halloway, Regent Tries; Fitzpatrick 3 Goals) defeated Eastern Suburbs 15 (M. Frawley, Kelley, Webb Tries; Surridge 2, King Goals) at the Agricultural Society's Ground.

This was reported to be a particularly rough affair, Easts lost a player early in the match through injury, and two more players were severely concussed, Four were sent off for fighting, and a fifth, Easts captain Larry O'Malley was sent off for kicking.

RoundOpponentResultScoreDateVenueCrowd
Pemiership 10 North Sydney Bears Lost14 - 247 AugustAgricultural3000

Ladder

TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts
1 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 1090121041+16918
2 Balmain colours.svg Balmain 1080213062+6816
3 Newcastle foundation colours.svg Newcastle 1050514493+5110
4 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 10505167141+2610
5 Glebe colours.svg Glebe 1040662159-978
6 Newtown colours.svg Newtown 1031673107-347
7 North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney 10226104157-536
8 Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 1021742172-1305

Semi-final

Balmain 15 (Walker 2, Edwards, Graves, Regent tries) defeated Eastern Suburbs 8 (Lenton, Surridge tries; King goal) at the Wentworth Park Ground in front of around 3,000 spectators.

Balmain were never in any danger of defeat, both Easts tries came late in the match with Balmain already leading by 15 points.

The lineups were-

Eastern Suburbs: Bill KingWilliam Lenton • Sid Kaufman • Percy McNamara • Les Abott • Harry FleggTom BruceMick Frawley • F. Denholm • Arthur SurridgeArthur Hennessy (c) • Harold KelleySid Pearce

Balmain home jersey 1908.svg Balmain: F. Wooley • W. Smith • A. Walker • A. Latta • A Fitzpatrick • Arthur Halloway • L. Edwards • F. Woodward • B. Graves • J. Regent (c) • F. Ward • T. McFadyen • J. Appoloney

Point analysis

Offence

The lowdown: Eastern Suburbs completed the following score options in the 1908 season:

The result:

Eastern Suburbs scored a total of 167 points in 1909.

The verdict:

Defence

The lowdown:

Eastern Suburbs conceded the following score options in the 1909 season:

The result:

Eastern Suburbs conceded a total of 141 points in 1909.

The verdict:

Season summary

Notes

  1. Many of Eastern Suburbs leading players (particularly those who had gone away on the previous year's Kangaroo tour) had taken up contracts with English rugby league clubs . Missing much of the backend of the season. Excerpts from English rugby league club Warrington Wolves's 1909/10 yearbook show that Dan Frawley, Johnno Stuntz and Larry O'Malley all played with that club in the 1909/10 English season. It also reveals that they had telegrammed Dally Messenger attempting to sign both he and Sid Pearce. Another Eastern Suburbs player, Albert Rosenfeld, signed with Huddlesfield where he became one of English rugby league greatest try scorers.
  2. Dally Messenger took no part in 1909 Eastern Suburbs season.

References

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