Paddy McCue

Full name

Patrick Aloysius McCue

Date of birth

24 June 1883

Place of birth

Sydney, NSW

Date of death

7 September 1962 (aged 79)

Place of death

Cronulla, New South Wales

Rugby league career

Senior career
Position(s)	Second-row
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1910–16	Newtown Bluebags	81	(116)
State of Origin
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1911–12	New South Wales	2	(6)
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1911–14	Australia	4	(6)

Rugby union career

Amateur team(s)
Position(s)	lock
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1907–08	Wallabies	4	(0)

Senior career
Position(s)	Second-row
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1910–16	Newtown Bluebags	81	(116)
State of Origin
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1911–12	New South Wales	2	(6)
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1911–14	Australia	4	(6)

Amateur team(s)
Position(s)	lock
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1907–08	Wallabies	4	(0)

Olympic medal record
Men's Rugby union
	1908 London	Team competition

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

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.

Along with fourteen of his Olympic Wallaby team-mates on his return to Australia he negotiated to take part in promotional matches against the Pioneer Kangaroos and 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.

...
Wikipedia