Patrick McCue

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Paddy McCue
Paddy McCue.jpg
McCue, c. 1908
Birth namePatrick Aloysius McCue [1] [2]
Date of birth(1883-06-24)24 June 1883 [1]
Place of birth Sydney, New South Wales
Date of death7 September 1962(1962-09-07) (aged 79) [1]
Place of death Cronulla, New South Wales
Notable relative(s) Jim McCue (brother)
Rugby union career
Position(s) lock [1]
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Newtown RUFC ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1907–08 Wallabies 4 (0)
Rugby league career
Playing information
Position Second-row
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1910–16 Newtown 81116
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1911–12 New South Wales 26
1911–14 Australia 46
Medal record
Men's rugby union
Representing Flag of Australasian team for Olympic games.svg Australasia
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1908 London Team competition

Patrick Aloysius McCue (24 June 1883 – 10 September 1962) was an Australian representative rugby union player and pioneer rugby league footballer. He was a dual-code rugby international and an Olympic gold medallist. [3]

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Rugby union career

1908 Olympic Gold Final Wallabies v Cornwall Olympic Rugby 1908.jpg
1908 Olympic Gold Final Wallabies v Cornwall

A forward with the Newtown Rugby Union club in Sydney, McCue was selected on the first Wallaby tour of England in 1908–1909, the squad captained by Herbert Moran. That side competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, and McCue was a member of the Australia national rugby union team captained by Chris McKivat, which won the gold medal. Paddy McCue also coached the St. George Rugby Union Club in the 1930s. [4]

Rugby league club career

Along with fourteen of his Olympic Wallaby teammates, on his return to Australia, he negotiated to take part in promotional matches against the Pioneer Kangaroos. He was promptly banned from the amateur code by the Metropolitan Rugby Union. McCue and a number of the rebels joined the Newtown club in Sydney in 1910. They included gold medallist Wallabies John "Jumbo" Barnett and Charles "Boxer" Russell. He helped the club win premiership honours that year, playing at second-row forward in the 1910 NSWRFL season's final.

McCue played seven seasons with Newtown and after retiring as a player was assistant coach of the University club in its inaugural first grade season of 1920. He later returned to rugby union, coaching the University rugby union team in seasons 1926, 1927, 1932, 1935, 1942, 1943 and 1944. [5] Paddy McCue was the elder brother of Jim McCue, who also played with Newtown between 1911 and 1919.

In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, McCue was named in the Newtown Jets 18-man team of the century.

Rugby league representative career

McCue was selected to represent New South Wales in 1911 and later led New South Wales as captain on the 1912-13 tour of New Zealand.

He was selected on the 1911–12 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, which was an Australasian squad including four New Zealanders. McCue made his international rugby league debut in the first Test of 1911 at Newcastle upon Tyne and played in all three Tests of the series, as well as in twenty other minor tour matches, scoring seven tries all told on the tour. His final international appearance was in the first test of the 1914 domestic Ashes series. [6]

McCue back row 5th from left, with the 1908 Wallaby tour squad Postcard - Wallabies 1908.jpg
McCue back row 5th from left, with the 1908 Wallaby tour squad

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Scrum.com player profile of Paddy McCue". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  2. ↑ other sources report his date of birth 1 June 1883
  3. ↑ "Patrick McCue". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  4. ↑ The Referee, Sydney (5/8/1937) "The Secrets of St. George's Revival"
  5. ↑ "Patrick McCue, Lock, Wallaby #79". Historical Wallabies Player Profile. Australian Rugby Union. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  6. ↑ Whittacker/Hudson: The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. 1995 ISBN   1875169571

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