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Tedda Courtney - Wikipedia

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Tedda Courtney

Courtney in 1908

Personal information

Full name

Joseph Edward Courtney

Born

30 August 1885
Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Died

23 July 1957 (aged 71)
Lakemba, New South Wales, Australia

Playing information

Position

Forward

Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1908	Newtown	7	1	0	0	4
1909	Western Suburbs	5	1	0	0	4
1910	North Sydney	12	1	0	0	4
1911–24	Western Suburbs	156	34	2	0	140
	Total	180	37	2	0	152
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1908–15	New South Wales	9	2	0	0	6
1908–14	Australia	11	1	0	0	3
1910	Australasia	2	1	0	0	3
1908–15	Metropolis	4	3	0	0	9

Coaching information

Club
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
1923	Western Suburbs	0	0	0	0
1930	North Sydney	14	2	1	11	14
1935	Canterbury-Bankstown	16	2	0	14	13
	Total	30	4	1	25	13

Source: Rugby League Project and Yesterday's Hero

Relatives

Ed Courtney Jr. (son)
Harry Courtney (son)

Ed "Tedda" Courtney (30 August 1885 – 23 July 1957) was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He played club football for North Sydney, Western Suburbs and representative football for the New South Wales state and Australian national sides. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.^[1]

Born in Townsville, Courtney was one of six brothers who all played for North Sydney. His brothers Raymond and Robert died in World War I. He was a wharfie throughout his working life and was renowned for his fearless tackling style and ability to harass the opposition with his defence.

Playing career

Rugby union

Courtney played rugby union for North Sydney and for St George. He was one of the group of New South Wales rugby footballers who played against Baskerville's All Golds on their seminal trip to the United Kingdom in 1907 which started rugby league in Australia and New Zealand. He played in the second of the three exhibition matches; was promptly banned from amateur rugby union thereafter and the following year was given a vote of thanks by being made a lifetime member of the New South Wales Rugby League.

Rugby league

Tedda Courtney had a remarkably long first grade career that lasted for 16 seasons.

Courtney joined Newtown in 1908 in the professional code, moved to Wests in 1909 and the North Sydney in 1910. He found his club home back at Wests in 1911 where he played the next thirteen seasons, amassing over 300 games across all grades.^[2]

He was selected on the inaugural Kangaroo tour of 1908-09 appearing in all three Tests and in a total of thirty-one games on tour on which he was the top-scoring forward with 10 tries. He made a second Kangaroo tour in 1911-12 in which he made twenty five match appearances. He played in three other Test series against Great Britain at home in 1910 and 1914 and against New Zealand in 1909, he also represented Australasia. On 14 June 1924 when Courtney was 38 he played in a game for Wests against Glebe alongside his son, Ed Courtney, Jr.,. It remains the only time a father and son combination has played together in a Sydney first grade game.

He is listed on the Australian Players register as Kangaroo No.37.

Coaching career

Courtney was captain-coach of the Western Suburbs team in 1923. He retired as a player at the end of 1924 and returned to the district of his football beginnings – North Sydney. He coached the lower grades for some years and coached North Sydney's first grade side in 1930.

Courtney's coaching services were obtained by the newly formed Canterbury-Bankstown DRLFC for their first season in 1935.^[3]

Accolades

In September 2004 Courtney was named at prop in the Western Suburbs Magpies team of the century.^[4]

Ted Courtney was a Life Member of the New South Wales Rugby League.

In February 2008, Courtney was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.^[5]

References

^ Century's Top 100 Players Archived 25 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ Whiticker, Alan; Hudson, Glen (2007). The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players (6th ed.). Sydney, Australia: Gary Allen. pp. 103–104. ISBN 978-1-877082-93-1.
^ "History". bulldogs.com.au. Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
^ westsmagpies.net (2008). "Western Suburbs Team of the Century". Wests Archives. Western Suburbs Magpies R.L.F.C. Archived from the original on 21 October 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
^ "Centenary of Rugby League – The Players". NRL & ARL. 23 February 2008. Archived from the original on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2008.

Sporting positions
Preceded by	Coach Canterbury-Bankstown 1935	Succeeded by Frank Burge 1936
Preceded by Jimmy Devereux 1924-1925	Coach North Sydney 1930	Succeeded by Tom Wright 1931
Preceded by	Coach Western Suburbs 1923	Succeeded by Albert Johnston 1924

External links

Tedda Courtney at bulldogs.com.au

1908–09 Kangaroo Tour squad – The First Kangaroos

v t e Western Suburbs Magpies Team of the 20th Century
1. Frank McMillan 2. Peter Dimond 3. Harry Wells 4. Cliff Pearce 5. Alan Ridley 6. Vic Hey 7. Keith Holman 8. John Donnelly 9. Noel Kelly (c) 10. Ed "Tedda" Courtney 11. Kel O'Shea 12. Arthur Clues 13. Les Boyd 14. Tom Raudonikis 15. John Dorahy 16. Neville Charlton 17. Bill Carson Coach: Roy Masters

North Sydney Bears coaches

Denis Lutge (1915–16)
George Green (1918–19)
Chris McKivat (1920–22)
Jim Devereux (1924–25)
Tom McMahon (1928)
Leo O'Connor (1929)
Tedda Courtney (1930)
Tom Wright (1931)
Arthur Edwards (1933)
Herman Peters (1934)
Frank Burge (1935)
Jim Craig (1936)
Laurie Ward (1937)
Bob Williams (1938–39)
Arthur Halloway (1940–41)
Jack O'Reilly (1942)
Frank Hyde (1943–44)
Frank Burge (1945)
Harry Forbes (1946)
Cliff Pearce (1947–48)
Harry McKinnon (1949)
Frank Hyde (1950)
Laurie Doran (1951)
Ross McKinnon (1952–53)
Rex Harrison (1954–55)
Bruce Ryan (1956)
Trevor Allan (1957–58)
Ross McKinnon (1959)
Greg Hawick (1960)
Bob Sullivan (1961–62)
Fred Griffiths (1963–66)
Billy Wilson (1967)
Colin Greenwood (1968)
Ross Warner (1968)
Roy Francis (1969–70)
Merv Hicks (1971–72)
Noel Kelly (1973–76)
Bill Hamilton (1977–78)
Tommy Bishop (1979)
Ron Willey (1980–82)
John Hayes (1983–84)
Greg Hawick (1985)
Brian Norton (1985–86)
Frank Stanton (1987–88)
Steve Martin (1990–92)
Peter Louis (1993–99)
Kieran Dempsey (1999)