Frank Stanton (rugby league)
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Personal information
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| Nickname | Biscuits | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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7 February 1940 St Leonards, New South Wales |
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Playing information
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| Position | Halfback, Centre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Coaching information
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As of 10 January 2016
Source: Yesterday's Hero RLP
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Frank "Biscuits" Stanton (born 7 February 1940 in St Leonards, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league player and a successful club and national representative coach. His playing and club coaching career was with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. He enjoyed success as coach of the Australian national side from 1978 to 1984, being at the helm in the period when the Kangaroos began to consistently dominate the other rugby league playing nations.
Stanton was a versatile back who played 129 first grade games for Manly between 1961 and 1969. He started out as a talented Halfback and later played at Centre in Manly's 1968 Grand Final loss to South Sydney.
He made two state appearances for New South Wales and was honoured with national selection for the 1963 Kangaroo tour. He appeared in 18 minor matches on tour and did not play in any Tests with the Australian selectors at the time having a wealth of three-quarter talent available in Graeme Langlands, Reg Gasnier, Peter Dimond, Michael Cleary, Ken Irvine and Les Johns.
After retiring as a player at the end of the 1969 season, Stanton became the Sea Eagles Reserve Grade coach in 1971, leading the team to the Reserve Grade Premiership in 1973. In 1975 he took over as coach of Manly-Warringah from Ron Willey and was in charge for five seasons till the end of 1979. He guided Manly to premiership success in 1976 and 1978. The 1976 win was a triumph for the astute and powerful Manly triumvirate of captain Bob Fulton, coach Stanton and club secretary Ken Arthurson who would all go onto higher honours in the game. Stanton spent 1980 coaching Redcliffe in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership. Redcliffe finished 5th in 1980.
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