12 Facts About Reg Date

Reg Date was an Australian soccer player who plied his trade after the Second World War.

Reg Date represented Australia in five full international matches, captaining three times.

Reg Date's father was a fisherman at Lemon Tree Passage, where Date lived until the age of eight, when he moved to live in Wallsend with his mother's parents.

Reg Date went to Plattsburg Public School in Wallsend, being a prolific goalscorer in their youth matches; he even claimed that he had scored a total of 1,616 career goals including junior football, although there is no evidence of such.

Reg Date made his debut for Wallsend Football Club in 1938 as a 16-year-old.

Reg Date joined Canterbury-Bankstown in the state league in 1945.

Reg Date continued to live in Wallsend, commuting by train every weekend.

At his peak Reg Date was an incredible goal scorer for Canterbury-Bankstown in the New South Wales Division 1, earning state and international recognition and captaining Australia in three matches against South Africa in a five-game home series against that nation; Reg Date scoring eight goals.

Reg Date scored another three in two warm-up matches for the 'B' side prior to the official tour.

Reg Date worked for years running hotels in the Newcastle area.

Reg Date became the publican of the Queens Arms Hotel in Maitland in 1947, moving to the Ocean View Hotel in Dudley the next year.

In 1954, Reg Date took over the Albion Hotel in Wickham, where he worked until his retirement in 1980.