Col Donohoe
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| Full name | Matthew Colin Donohoe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 August 1929 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 16 June 1986 (aged 56) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Halfback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matthew Colin "Col" Donohoe (1929–1986) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Eastern Suburbs and South Sydney clubs, playing between 1951 and 1959.[3]
Club career
[edit]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 and 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
[edit]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[4] representing Australia for the first time on 2 July 1952.[5] Donohue is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No.294.[6]
Col Donohoe died in 1986 following complications during an operation for a hip replacement 47 days short of his 57th birthday.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Rugby League Project
- ^ Rugby League Project Coaches
- ^ "Rugby League Tables / Col Donohoe".
- ^ "Donohoe As Five-eighth Shock Move". The Sun-Herald. Sydney. 9 May 1954. p. 36. Retrieved 13 June 2011 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "NEWCOMERS AT PRACTICE FOR LEAGUE TEST DEBUT". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 July 1952. p. 7. Retrieved 13 June 2011 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ ARL Annual Report 2005, page 54
- ^ Alan Whiticker, Rugby League Project
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