28 Facts About Arthur Halloway

Arthur Halloway played for New South Wales in the first rugby match run by the newly created 'New South Wales Rugby Football League' which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union.

Arthur Halloway was a half-back for the Australian national team.

Arthur Halloway played in ten Tests between 1908 and 1919, as captain on three occasions in 1919.

Arthur Halloway holds the record for the most premierships won as a coach in Australian rugby league history with eight premierships.

Arthur Halloway holds the record for the longest undefeated streak as a coach in Australian rugby league history with 35 games undefeated.

Arthur Halloway was playing rugby union with Easts in Sydney when the defections to rugby league commenced in 1908.

Arthur Halloway was recruited by the Glebe club after taking part in the rebel series against Baskerville's New Zealand 'All Golds'.

Late in the 1908 season Arthur Halloway was selected to go away on the inaugural Kangaroo Tour.

Arthur Halloway played in 29 matches on tour including the 1st Anglo-Australian Test in London.

In 1910 Arthur Halloway moved to the Balmain club for three seasons, from where he continued his representative career, making his second Kangaroo tour in 1911.

Arthur Halloway played in twelve tour matches but no Tests with McKivat the preferred Test half-back.

Arthur Halloway joined the Eastern Suburbs club 1912 where he won back to back premierships in 1912 and 1913 as well as being a member of the City Cup Winning Side in 1914.

Arthur Halloway returned to Balmain in 1915 where he won further premierships in 1915,1916,1917,1919 and 1920 as captain and captain-coach from 1916.

Arthur Halloway made over thirty appearances for New South Wales as well as one for Queensland after he moved there in 1921.

Arthur Halloway is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No 21.

Arthur Halloway was a consummate team man, a sound defender and an opportunistic half-back capable of opening up an opposition worn down by heavy forward clashes with impeccable service to his outside backs.

Arthur Halloway returned to Sydney in the 1930s and won three premierships as coach of the Roosters from 1935 to 1937.

Arthur Halloway coached Norths from 1940 to 1941; Canterbury in 1948 and won another premiership coaching Easts in 1945.

Arthur Halloway is a League pioneer, not of 1908, but of 1907 when he played against Baskerville's New Zealand team in the first match under League rules in Australia.

From 1915 to 1920 Arthur Halloway played for Balmain and shared in five more premierships.

In 1919,11 years after his first tour with the Kangaroos, Arthur Halloway was captain of an Australian side to New Zealand.

Arthur Halloway's perfect equanimity, whatever the result is a valuable antidote to the chagrin by self-complacency of players or officials.

Arthur Halloway loosens up once a year at the Kangaroos reunion but only to tell of the exploits or amusing experiences of others.

All up Pony Arthur Halloway went on four overseas playing tours.

Arthur Halloway won seven premierships as a player and four as a coach.

Arthur Halloway was involved in the game at the top level either as player or coach in a career spanning 37 years.

Arthur Halloway was awarded Life Membership of the New South Wales Rugby League in 1914.

In February 2008, Arthur Halloway was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.