Howard Hallett
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| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | George Ernest Howard Hallett | |||||
| Nickname | The Rock of Gibraltar | |||||
| Born | 1890 | |||||
| Died | 28 May 1970 Maroubra, New South Wales |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Fullback, Centre | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1909–24 | South Sydney | 155 | 21 | 35 | 0 | 133 |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1909–14 | New South Wales | 17 | 16 | |||
| 1911–14 | Australia | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1925–26 | South Sydney | 28 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 93 |
| Source: Rugby League Project and Yesterday's Hero | ||||||
Howard Hallett (1890–1970) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach for the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. Hallett primarily played at fullback. He represented for New South Wales and Australia and is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century
Hallett was originally an Australian rules footballer but was graded with Souths in 1908, the first season of rugby league in Australia and made his debut in the first-grade team in 1909. Hallett was a playing member of three premiership-winning teams; 1909, 1914 and 1918. At the end of the 1914 season, Hallett was awarded a silver belt by the Sanderson Whiskey company as Player of the Season. Hallett was first selected to play for New South Wales in 1911. In the same year he was selected to tour with the 1911–12 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, making his debut playing against the Northern Union at Newcastle as a centre and scoring his one and only test try. He played the remaining two tests at fullback. Hallett toured with New South Wales to New Zealand in both the 1913 inaugural tour and 1914. Hallett's final year as a member of the national team was in 1914 when the Northern Union toured Australia.
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