Fred Tottey

Frederick Joseph Tottey (25 November 1909 – 1977) was a rugby league footballer who played in Australia's leading competition the New South Wales Rugby Football League.

Career

Tottey, a winger, played 80 matches for Eastern Suburbs between 1930 and 1937 before joining the English club Halifax for the 1938 season.

Tottey played his junior football in New Zealand. He Joined Easts' as a 17 year old. A member of the great Eastern Suburbs sides of the 1930s, Tottey won three consecutive premierships with club in 1935, 1936 and 1937. In those three seasons the club lost just one match.

Try Scoring Record

In the 1935 season Tottey scored 27 tries and he holds one of rugby league's most amazing records - scoring tries in 15 consecutive matches. The winger scored 73 tries in total during his time at Eastern Suburbs.

Tottey was a representative of both Sydney and New South Wales and was selected for the 1937/38 Kangaroo Tour but was ruled out after suffering a broken ankle while representing New South Wales. Tottey sailed with the "Kangaroo tourist" to England where he joined his new club - Haifax FC. He returned to Sydney in May 1939 to again play with Easts but Halifax refused to offer him a release as he was still contracted to them until 1940. [1] The contractual dispute was never resolved and he didn't play Rugby League or Union again in Australia.[2]

He died in New Zealand in 1977.

References

  1. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald: "League Winger. Tottey cannot play today" 27/05/1939
  2. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald: " Tottey desire to play Union- may not apply". 20/07/1940 (page 16)


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