Dennis Tutty is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach in the New South Wales Rugby League competition who represented for Australia.
19 Facts About Dennis Tutty
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Dennis Tutty was a champion rower for New South Wales and won a national title in 1965.
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Dennis Tutty is the brother of Olympian sculler Ian Dennis Tutty and cousin of Australian rugby league international Reg Gasnier.
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The youngest son and second youngest child of a motor mechanic, Dennis Tutty was raised in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney.
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Dennis Tutty rowed in the five seat of the New South Wales eight which won King's Cup in 1965.
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Dennis Tutty was graded to Balmain in 1964 at the age of seventeen.
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Dennis Tutty became the youngest player to ever appear in a grand final when Balmain met St George at the end of that season.
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Dennis Tutty played ostensibly as an amateur so that he could continue to compete in what was then the strictly non-professional sport of rowing.
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In 1967, Dennis Tutty was selected to play in his only Test appearance, against New Zealand in the first Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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In March 1968, citing unhappiness with the terms of his contract, Dennis Tutty applied to the Tigers for a clearance to play with another club.
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The request was refused and Dennis Tutty then lodged an appeal with the New South Wales Rugby League.
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Dennis Tutty did not appeal the second refusal but sat out the 1969 season, not playing for any team.
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Dennis Tutty fought for over two years for the right for players to transfer to another club.
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Dennis Tutty played seventeen games but did not receive any remuneration from the club.
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Dennis Tutty was free to play for the Penrith Panthers in 1972 and he remained with the club for three seasons.
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Dennis Tutty spent his final year in first-grade, 1976, back at Balmain.
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Dennis Tutty spent one season as a first-grade coach, with Balmain in 1980.
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Dennis Tutty stood down at the end of the 1980 season and was succeeded by Frank Stanton.
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Dennis Tutty coached the Forster Tuncurry Hawks to successive Clayton Cup wins in 1994 and 1995.