Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Keith George Froome
- Born
- Saturday, 20th August, 1921
- Died
- Wednesday, 25th January, 1978 (Aged 56 years and 158 days)
- Place Of Birth
- Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
Former NSW halfback with Newcastle Wests captained Newtown's third grade to premiership success in 1943 while serving with the AIF. Froome again played for NSW after the resumption of interstate competition at the end of World War II and made his Test debut against NZ in 1948. A capable goal-kicker with an effective, short-kicking game, Froome played 16 matches on the 1948-49 Kangaroo Tour, including three Tests against Great Britain and France. In 1949 he was named inaugural ‘Sun Herald’ Player of the Year’ and was selected as Australian captain-coach on the tour of NZ at the end of the year. Froome scored a try and landed a goal in Australia's 13-10 win in the Second Test that tied that series. Injured for much of the 1950 season he did not play a role in Australia's historic Ashes win over Great Britain - his place as Test captain taken by Clive Churchill. After Newtown was knocked out of the 1950 semi-final series Froome accepted a captain-coach position with Gunnedah in north-western NSW. He retired as a player after just a handful of matches but remained on as a coach. Froome passed away suddenly from cancer in 1978, aged 57.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Additional Notes
Served in the Second World War as a private in the AIF.
Playing Career Statistics
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Competitions | ||||||||||||||
Competition | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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City vs Country Firsts | 5 | - | 5 | - | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 80.00% | List | ||||
Interstate Matches | 7 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 85.71% | List | ||||
NRL | 72 | 16 | 120 | - | 288 | 45 | 22 | 5 | 62.50% | List | ||||
NRL Finals | 3 | 1 | 6 | - | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | 1 | - | 4 | - | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Tour Matches | Australia | 23 | 5 | 55 | - | 125 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 69.57% | List | |||
Test Series | 8 | 2 | 12 | - | 27 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
The Ashes | 2 | 1 | - | - | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
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Test Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Australia | 1948-49 | 8 | 2 | 12 | - | 30 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.00% | List | |||
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Australia - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
NSW Country Seconds | 1941 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
NSW Firsts | 1941, 1946, 1948-49 | 9 | 2 | 4 | - | 14 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.89% | List | |||
NSW Country Firsts | 1941-42 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | |||
Police | 1942 | 1 | 2 | 5 | - | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Rest of NSW Firsts | 1942 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
Probables (AU) | 1946 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
NSW City Seconds | 1946 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Possibles (AU) | 1948 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
NSW City Firsts | 1948-50 | 3 | - | 4 | - | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Overall | 1941-1950 | 20 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 51 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 75.00% | List | |||
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NRL/NSWRL - By Year | ||||||||||||||
Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1943 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.00% | List | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1946 | 15 | 4 | 7 | - | 26 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 66.67% | List | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1947 | 16 | 3 | 21 | - | 51 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 56.25% | List | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1948 | 8 | 3 | 24 | - | 57 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 87.50% | List | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1949 | 14 | 2 | 33 | - | 72 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 50.00% | List | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1950 | 17 | 4 | 35 | - | 82 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 64.71% | List | |||
NRL/NSWRL - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Newtown | 1943, 1946-50 | 72 | 16 | 120 | - | 288 | 45 | 22 | 5 | 62.50% | List |
Contributions:
Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Rugby League Tables, Greg Fiveash, Paul Carter, Alan Katzmann, Bill Bates, Max Turner, AJ Lucantonio
Your Say
29/06/2019
He used to fish with my dad, (Cecil halcrow). Who was a member of the bellringers football club gunnedah.
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