Steve Darmody

Full name

Stephen James Darmody

Date of birth

1890

Date of death

1969

Place of death

Scotland

Rugby league career

Senior career
Position(s)	Wing three-quarter
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1911–12 1912–14	South Sydney Rabbitohs Hull F.C.	20 89	62
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1911–12	Australia		()

Senior career
Position(s)	Wing three-quarter
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1911–12 1912–14	South Sydney Rabbitohs Hull F.C.	20 89	62
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1911–12	Australia		()

Steve Darmody (1890–1969) was a pioneer Australian rugby league player. He toured with the Australian national team on the 1911–12 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.

A promising hurdler in his youth, Darmody joined the South Sydney Club in 1910 initially as a goal-kicking winger. He was chosen for the 1911–12 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain as versatile forward. He played in six minor matches on the tour, kicking nine goals.

Following the tour he stayed in England and along with Herb Gilbert and Jim Devereux he joined Hull F.C. for whom he made 89 appearances between 1912 and 1914. Alongside Gilbert and Devereux, Darmody played Loose forward/Lock in Hull's 6-0 victory over Wakefield Trinity in the 1914 Challenge Cup Final during the 1913–14 season at Thrum Hall, Halifax, in front of a crowd of 19,000.

At the outbreak of World War I, Darmody enlisted in the British Army. He saw service in Flanders as a despatch rider for the Service Corps. His foot was mangled in machinery accident early in the war resulting in the loss of his foot. He had an artificial limb fitted and then re-enlisted.

The Hull club later played a testimonial match for Darmody. In 1921, when the airship R38 Humber split in two and fell onto the city, Darmody searched through the rubble for survivors and was called to give evidence at the coronial inquest.

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