Arthur Halloway

Arthur Halloway

Halloway playing for the Balmain Tigers
Personal information
Full name	Arthur James Halloway
Nickname	Pony
Born	17 July 1885 Sydney, Australia
Died	29 January 1961 (75 years old) Burwood, New South Wales
Playing information
Height	165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	63.5 kg (140 lb; 10 st 0 lb)
Position	Halfback
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1908 Glebe 8 2 0 0 6 1909–11 Balmain 30 18 0 0 54 1912–14 Eastern Suburbs 36 9 0 0 27 1915–20 Balmain 78 28 1 0 86 1921–2?  ? (Queensland) Total 152 57 1 0 173 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1907–19 New South Wales 27 7 0 0 21 1921 Queensland 1 0 0 0 0 1908–19 Australia 10 0 0 0 0
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 1916–20 Balmain 70 55 3 12 79 1923 Newtown 16 4 2 10 25 1930–31 Eastern Suburbs 31 23 0 8 74 1933–38 Easterns Suburbs 89 64 8 17 72 1940–41 North Sydney 28 7 1 20 25 1945 Eastern Suburbs 16 13 0 3 81 1947 Eastern Suburbs 18 5 1 12 28 1948 Canterbury-Bankstown 18 7 2 9 39 Total 286 178 17 91 62
Source: RLP Coaching Career

Arthur 'Pony' Halloway (1885–1961), was a pioneering Australian rugby league footballer and coach. Born in Sydney, New South Wales 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 Football League premiership. He played for New South Wales in the very first rugby match run by the newly created 'New South Wales Rugby Football League' which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union.

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

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 played in 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.