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.[2]

Fred Tottey
Personal information
Full nameFrederick Tottey
Born(1909-11-25)25 November 1909
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died28 September 1977(1977-09-28) (aged 67)
New Zealand
Playing information
PositionWing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1930–37 Eastern Suburbs 74 77 0 0 231
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1937 New South Wales 4 5 0 0 15
1931–37 NSW City 3 3 0 0 9
As of 7 June 2019
Source: [1]

Career

Tottey, a winger, played 74 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 the club in 1935, 1936 and 1937. In those three seasons the Tricolours lost just one match.[3]

Tryscoring record

In the 1935 season Tottey scored 19 tries, combining with fellow threequarters Dave Brown and Rod O'Loan for an amazing aggregate of 84 tries in just eighteen games. Tottey holds one of rugby league's most amazing records – scoring tries in 15 consecutive matches. The winger scored 77 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 actual Kangaroo tourists to England where he joined his new club – Halifax RFC. He returned to Sydney in May 1939 to again play with Easts but Halifax refused to offer him a release as he was contracted to them until 1940.[4] The contractual dispute was never resolved and he didn't play Rugby League or Union again in Australia.[5]

Tottey died in New Zealand in 1977.

References
  1. "Fred Tottey - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project". Rugbyleagueproject.org.
  2. "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  3. "Men's Honour Roll". Sydney Roosters.
  4. ‘League Winger. Tottey cannot play today’; Sydney Morning Herald, 27 May, 1939
  5. ‘Tottey desire to play Union – may not apply’; Sydney Morning Herald, July 20, 1940, p. 16
  • The Encyclopedia Of Rugby League Players; Alan Whiticker & Glen Hudson
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