Andy Morton

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Andy Morton
Personal information
Full nameAndrew David Morton
Born(1882-04-23)23 April 1882
Manly, New South Wales, Australia
Died18 October 1950(1950-10-18) (aged 68)
St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Position Wing, Centre, Fullback
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1908 North Sydney 622010
1909–11 Hull F.C.
1911–12 North Sydney 14017034
Total20219044
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1908–11 New South Wales 40000
1909 Australia 10000
1908–11 Metropolis 20204
Source: [1]
As of 21 June 2019

Andy Morton (1882-1950) was a pioneering Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s. An Australia international and New South Wales state representative backline player, he played club football for North Sydney and in England for Hull F.C.

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Playing career

Morton played for the North Sydney club during the 1908 NSWRFL season, the first ever for rugby league in Australia. That season he played for New South Wales in the first ever interstate rugby league match. [2] His club lost his services just before the finals, along with Norths' teammates Sid Deane, Jim Devereaux and Dinny Lutge as they had been selected to go on the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. [3] Morton was the first Australian to score a try in Britain: in their victory over Welsh club Mid-Rhondda in the first match of the tour. He was also selected to play on the wing in the second Test match loss, becoming Kangaroo No. 26. [4] He scored 30pts (4t, 9g) in another 22 matches on tour. Morton and Norths' teammate Deveraux were signed by English club Hull, and remained in England to play. [5] [6]

Andy Morton played left-centre, i.e. number 4, in Hull FC's 7–7 draw with Leeds in the 1910 Challenge Cup Final during the 1909–10 season at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield, on Saturday 16 April 1910, in front of a crowd of 19,413, this was the first Challenge Cup Final to be drawn, and played left-centre, i.e. number 4, in the 12–26 defeat by Leeds in the 1910 Challenge Cup Final replay at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield, on Monday 18 April 1910, in front of a crowd of 11,608.

After two seasons with Hull, Morton returned to Australia and resumed his career with North Sydney. [7]

Death

Morton died at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital on 18 October 1950, age 68. His funeral was held the following afternoon at Northern Suburbs Crematorium. [8]

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