Duncan Hall

{{Short description|Australia international rugby league footballer}}

{{For|the university residence hall|Duncan Hall (University of Notre Dame)}}

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Duncan Hall (24 August 1925{{spaced ndash}}18 January 2011) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s, singled out as having been amongst the greatest of the 20th century.[http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players Century's Top 100 Players] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225164807/http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players|date=25 February 2008}} He played in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership for Fortitude Valley Diehards and represented Queensland and Australia. He has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. Away from football Hall worked as a hotelier and bookmaker, and in his later years worked at the Broncos Leagues Club. His son Duncan Hall, Jr. played 15 rugby union tests for the Wallabies{{Cite news

| last = Ricketts

| first = Steve

| title = Rugby league mourns the death of the Team of the Century prop Duncan Hall

| work = The Daily Telegraph

| place = Sydney

| date = 19 January 2011

| url = http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/rugby-league-mourns-the-death-of-the-team-of-the-century-prop-duncan-hall/story-e6frfgbo-1225990640585

| access-date = 18 January 2011}}

Playing career

Hall had a successful 1948–49 tour of England and France as a second row forward and later a front row forward. This gained him the attention of Sydney clubs, who were unable to sign him due to a ban imposed on the QRL at the time preventing interstate transfers of Queensland representatives who had played against New South Wales in the past 12 months.{{cite news

| title = Sydney clubs ready to sign Hall

| work = The Sunday Herald

| place =Australia

| pages = 7

| date = 21 August 1949

| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vl0QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7124,2588293

| access-date = 7 December 2009}} During the 1951 French rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand he played in all three Test matches, scoring tries in the 2nd and 3rd. Hall was selected for Australia's 1954 Rugby League World Cup squad.

;Representative

Australia: 22 Tests (1948–1955) 2 Kangaroo tours
Queensland: 24 Matches (1948–1955)

;Clubs

1945 – 47 Christian Brothers (Rockhampton)
1948 – 49 Valleys (Brisbane)
1950 Home Hill (North Queensland){{cite web | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63471761?searchTerm=home%20hill%20rugby%20league%20duncan%20hall&searchLimits=l-textSearchScope=*ignore*%7C*ignore*%7C%7C%7Cl-title=62%7C%7C%7Cl-title=60%7C%7C%7Cl-title=61%7C%7C%7Cl-title=77%7C%7C%7Cl-title=79%7C%7C%7Cl-title=91%7C%7C%7Cl-title=92%7C%7C%7Cl-title=375%7C%7C%7Cl-title=186%7C%7C%7Cl-title=269%7C%7C%7Cl-title=258%7C%7C%7Cl-title=268%7C%7C%7Cl-title=97%7C%7C%7Cl-word=*ignore*%7C*ignore* | title=Football | newspaper=Townsville Daily Bulletin | date=18 February 1950 }}
1951 – 53 Newtown (Toowoomba)
1954 – 57 Wests (Brisbane)

=Highlights=

Debuted for QLD & Australia in first year of Brisbane club football
Won Bulimba Cup with Brisbane (1948–49)
Member of QLD team to defeat Great Britain (1950)
Won Bulimba Cup with Toowoomba (1951–52)
JG Stephenson Trophy, 'Most Serviceable for QLD' (1951)
Kangaroo Tourist (1948/49), (1952/53)
Won Brisbane Rugby League premiership with Wests (1954)
Pike Cup winner with Wests (1954)
Gunner McCook Trophy, 'Brisbane RL Best & Fairest' (1954)
President's Cup winner with Wests (1955–56)
Coached Wests to President's Cup (1958)
Co-manager Australian World Cup team (1977)
Co-manager FIRST QLD State of Origin Team (1980)
Prop Forward – ARL Team of The Century (April 2008)

Post playing

In 2000 Hall was awarded the Australian Sports Medal. In 2006 he was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame.{{cite web|website=NRL & ARL|title=Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame|url=http://www.rugbyleague.com.au/arl/kangaroos/halloffame.php|access-date=17 March 2008|date=17 March 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080313124355/http://www.rugbyleague.com.au/arl/kangaroos/halloffame.php |archive-date = 13 March 2008}} The Duncan Hall Medal, is presented in his honour to award to the best and fairest player in the Queensland Cup.{{cite web|publisher=League Unlimited|title=Duncan Hall Medal unveiled|url=http://www.leagueunlimited.com/article.php?newsid=14805|access-date=17 March 2008|date=14 September 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005200539/http://www.leagueunlimited.com/article.php?newsid=14805|archive-date=5 October 2007|df=dmy-all}}

In 2007 Hall was selected by a panel of experts at prop in an Australian 'Team of the 50s'.{{Cite news

| last = AAP

| title = Team of the 50s named

| work = The Daily Telegraph

| place = Sydney

| date = 1 August 2007

| url = http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/team-of-the-50s-named/story-e6frexnr-1111114085439

| access-date = 6 October 2010}}

In February 2008, Hall 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.{{cite web|website=NRL & ARL|title=Centenary of Rugby League – The Players|url=http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/the-players.aspx?cat=3&list=true|access-date=23 February 2008|date=23 February 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226180521/http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/the-players.aspx?cat=3&list=true|archive-date=26 February 2008|df=dmy}}{{cite news|author=Peter Cassidy|publisher=Macquarie National News|title=Controversy reigns as NRL releases top 100 players|url=http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players|access-date=23 February 2008|date=23 February 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225164807/http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players|archive-date=25 February 2008|df=dmy}} Hall went on to be named in the front-row in Australian rugby league's Team of the Century. Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players.{{cite news|author=Todd Balym|publisher=Fox Sports Australia|title=Johns, Meninga among Immortals|url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,23557351-23214,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907035412/http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,23557351-23214,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 September 2012|access-date=17 April 2008|date=17 April 2008}}{{cite web|website=NRL & ARL|title=Team of the Century Announced|url=http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/news--reviews/media-releases/team-of-the-century-announced.aspx|access-date=17 April 2008|date=17 April 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100521122127/http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/news--reviews/media-releases/team-of-the-century-announced.aspx|archive-date=21 May 2010|df=dmy}} In June 2008, he was chosen in the Queensland Rugby League's Team of the Century at prop-forward.{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23843448-10389,00.html|newspaper=The Courier-Mail|date=10 June 2008|title=Locky named No.1 but Wal's still King|access-date=20 May 2009|first=Steve|last=Ricketts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080702003008/http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23843448-10389,00.html|archive-date=2 July 2008|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

In 2008, rugby league in Australia's centenary year, Hall was named at second-row forward in the Toowoomba and South West Team of the Century.{{cite news|last=Leslie|first=Cameron|title=Rugby League Team of the Century named|url=http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2008/08/21/team-of-greats-shows-depthof-south-west/|access-date=8 January 2012|newspaper=The Chronicle|date=21 August 2008}}

Hall resided in a nursing home at Coolum, Queensland until his death at age 85 in 2011.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20140114111429/http://nz.leagueunlimited.com/news.php?newsid=16380 Queensland Team of the Century named – article at nz.leagueunlimited.com]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090201084557/http://qrl.com.au/qrl_history/qld_rep_h.php Queensland representatives at qrl.com.au]

Category:1925 births

Category:2011 deaths

Category:Australia national rugby league team players

Category:Australian rugby league players

Category:Fortitude Valley Diehards players

Category:Queensland rugby league team players

Category:Rugby league players from Rockhampton, Queensland

Category:Rugby league second-rows

Category:Wests Panthers players

Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen