Col Donohoe
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Matthew Colin Donohoe | |||||
| Nickname | Col | |||||
| Born | 1929 | |||||
| Died | 16 June 1986 Sydney, New South Wales | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Halfback | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1951–53 | Easts | 44 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 45 |
| 1955–59 | South Sydney | 85 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| Total | 129 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 84 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1954–56 | New South Wales | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1952–53 | Australia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Col Donohoe (1929-1986) was an Australian rugby league player for the Eastern Suburbs and South Sydney clubs, playing between 1951-1959.[1]
Club career
Col Donohoe, a half-back, played 4 seasons with the Sydney Roosters in 1949, 1951,1952 and 1953. Donohoe then played 5 seasons at South Sydney Rabbitohs between 1955-1959. He is remembered by South's fans as the man who scored a try late in the grand final that won South Sydney Rabbitohs the 1955 Premiership.
Representative career
Col Donohoe represented NSW Country Firsts on one occasion in 1950. He then represented New South Wales on three occasions in the years 1954 and 1956.
He also played half-back for the Kangaroos, in the Third Test against New Zealand [2] representing Australia for the first time on 2 July 1952.[3] Donohue is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No.294.[4]
Col Donohoe died in 1986 following complications during an operation for a hip replacement.[5]
References
- ↑ "Rugby League Tables / Col Donohoe".
- ↑ "Donohoe As Five-eighth Shock Move.". The Sun-Herald. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 9 May 1954. p. 36. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
- ↑ "NEWCOMERS AT PRACTICE FOR LEAGUE TEST DEBUT.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 1 July 1952. p. 7. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
- ↑ ARL Annual Report 2005, page 54
- ↑ Alan Whiticker, Rugby League Project