Montague "Monty" Porter PSM was an Australian premiership winning and state representative rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s.
18 Facts About Monty Porter
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Monty Porter was a second rower with the St George Dragons during their eleven-year premiership winning run from 1956 to 1966, playing in six winning grand final teams.
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Monty Porter was the inaugural captain of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in that club's foundation season of 1967.
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Monty Porter played schoolboy rugby league at Tamworth High and later for East Tamworth, where as a twenty-year-old he turned out against the touring 1954 Great Britain side.
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Monty Porter played for Thirroul and Wests in the Southern Division.
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Monty Porter spent the season in reserve grade making just four first-grade appearances that year.
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Monty Porter left the club in 1956 after spending the first six games of that season in the lower grade.
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Monty Porter trialled with Thirroul in the Southern Division using a false name to circumvent the residential qualification rules of the time and spent the rest of the 1956 season in their top grade.
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Monty Porter moved to the St George club in 1957 and was called into the first-grade team during the 1958 finals series at prop-forward, helping the side to their 3rd successive premiership.
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Monty Porter cemented his spot from 1959, enjoying great success as a second rower.
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Monty Porter made one representative appearance for New South Wales in 1960.
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Monty Porter retired from playing in 1968 and became the Club Secretary of the Cronulla-Sutherland club until 1970.
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Monty Porter remained actively involved with the club as chairman of selectors and under-23s coach until 1973.
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Monty Porter won a job managing the New South Wales State Government's sports administration arm Sports House which during the 1970s and 1980s provided free administration facilities for amateur sports.
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Monty Porter progressed to the role of assistant director of sport in New South Wales which he held for four years.
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That same year the NSWRFL found itself administering the Cronulla Sharks when the club ran into financial difficulties; Monty Porter accepted a post as President of the club from 1984 to 1988.
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Monty Porter was the winner of the 1960 award for his grand final performance against Easts.
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Monty Porter had suffered from Parkinson's disease for some years before his death.