Vic Hey

Vic Hey

Personal information
Full name	Victor John Hey
Nickname	The Human Bullet
Born	Monday 18 November 1912 Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Died	Tuesday 11 April 1995(1995-04-11) (aged 82)
Playing information
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	75 kg (11 st 11 lb)
Position	Five-eighth
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1933–35 Wests (Sydney) 26 18 1 0 56 1936 Toowoomba 1937 Ipswich 145 219 1937–44 Leeds 1944–47 Dewsbury 1947 Hunslet 10 9 1948–49 Parramatta 10 3 0 0 9 Total 191 21 1 0 293 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1933–35 New South Wales 12 9 0 0 27 1933–36 Australia 6 2 0 0 6 1936 Queensland 4 0 0 0 0 1937 British Empire 1 1 0 0 3
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 1948–53 Parramatta 108 36 9 63 33 1955–56 Canterbry.-Bankstn. 36 10 0 26 28 1958–59 Wests (Sydney) 40 26 1 13 65 Total 184 72 10 102 39 Representative Years Team Gms W D L W% 1950–55 Australia 16 8 0 8 50
Source: http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org

Vic Hey (born Monday 18 November 1912 in Liverpool, New South Wales — died Tuesday 11 April 1995(1995-04-11) (aged 82)) was an Australian rugby league national and state representative Five-eighth/Stand-off and later a successful first-grade and national coach. His Australian club playing career commenced with the Western Suburbs Magpies and concluded with the Parramatta Eels. In between he played for a number of clubs in the English first division. He is considered one of Australia's finest footballers of the 20th century

After starring as a schoolboy and playing his junior football with Guildford in western Sydney, Vic Hey was graded with the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1933. In a spectacular rookie season he cemented a first grade club spot and made both his state and national representative débuts. Hey was a late selection for the 1933–34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain replacing Ernie Norman who had failed a fitness test. On that tour he played in 23 tour matches and in all three Test matches of the Ashes series against England, partnering his Western Suburbs teammate Les Mead in the halves. On the tour he scored fourteen tries. In his second NSWRL season 1934, Hey was a member of Wests' premiership winning side. In September 2004 Hey was named at five-eighth in the Western Suburbs Magpies team of the century.

Moving to Queensland in 1936, Vic Hey briefly played a season for Toowoomba before moving to Ipswich. While living in Toowoomba and playing for Ipswich in 1936 Hey represented Queensland in all three matches of that year's interstate representative series. In 1936, from Queensland he was again selected for all three Test matches of the domestic Ashes series against England. Despite formal protests from the Queensland Rugby League, he was paid 1,400 pounds sterling to sign on with English club Leeds, at the time a higher amount than the rugby league world record transfer fee.