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Denis Donoghue

Playing Career

All information provided below is based only on data available in the RLP database and should be used as a guide only.

Vital Statistics

Position(s)
Front row
Full Name
Denis Reginald Donoghue
Born
Sunday, 17th October, 1926
Died
Sunday, 5th December, 1993 (Aged 67 years and 49 days)
Place Of Birth
Redfern, New South Wales, Australia

Competitions Won

Interstate Series
1950, 1954
NSW City vs Country Firsts
1951
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL)
1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955

Biography

Rabbitohs prop made two Test appearances for Australia against France in 1951 but is best remembered as a great Souths clubman who won five premierships (1950-51 & 1953-55). Donoghue left the club to captain-coach Collegians in the I’warra competition in 1958 but returned to Souths as coach from 1959-63. He had a long career in club administration during the Rabbitohs' last ‘golden era’ in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- ALAN WHITICKER

Playing Career Statistics

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Representative Career - International Comp WinsStartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
Tests (Senior International Matches) -2-2-----------2-0.00%List
Tour MatchesNew South Wales FirstsNFI-2-2-----------110.00%List
Tour MatchesSydney FirstsSDF-1-1------------10.00%List
Tour MatchesSouthern DivisionSOD-1-1-----------1-0.00%List
Test Series -2-2-----------2-0.00%List
Representative Career - Australia Comp WinsStartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
Interstate Series 25-51-1---3---32-60.00%List
NSW City vs Country Firsts 11-1----------1--100.00%List
NSW City vs Country 13-31-1---3---21-66.67%List
Club Career - Australia Comp WinsStartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
Country Carnival -7-72-2---6---61-85.71%List
NSWRFL (NRL Premiership) 5165-16525-251--77--111150467.27%List
NRL Finals -18-181-11--5---135-72.22%List
Overall StartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
First Class 179-17927-271--83--111657664.80%List

Test Matches - By Team

TeamYears StartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
Australia1951 2-2-----------2-0.00%List

Australia - By Team

TeamYears StartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
Probables (AU)1950, 1952, 1954 3-3----------11133.33%List
NSW Firsts1950-51, 1954 7-71-1---3---33142.86%List
Sydney Firsts1951-53 3-3----------2-166.67%List
NSW City Firsts1951 1-1----------1--100.00%List
NSW City Seconds1952, 1954 2-21-1---3---11-50.00%List
Southern Division1958 1-1-----------1-0.00%List

NSWRFL (NRL Premiership) - By Year

TeamSeason StartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
SouthsSouth Sydney19481948 NSWRFL 8-83-3---9---35-37.50%List
SouthsSouth Sydney19491949 NSWRFL 16-163-3---9---114168.75%List
SouthsSouth Sydney19501950 NSWRFL 17-177-7---21---134-76.47%List
SouthsSouth Sydney19511951 NSWRFL 17-172-21--8---142182.35%List
SouthsSouth Sydney19521952 NSWRFL 19-191-1---3--1127-63.16%List
SouthsSouth Sydney19531953 NSWRFL 19-192-2---6---126163.16%List
SouthsSouth Sydney19541954 NSWRFL 19-194-4---12---153178.95%List
SouthsSouth Sydney19551955 NSWRFL 20-202-2---6---137-65.00%List
SouthsSouth Sydney19561956 NSWRFL 18-18----------126-66.67%List
SouthsSouth Sydney19571957 NSWRFL 12-121-1---3---66-50.00%List

NSWRFL (NRL Premiership) - By Team

TeamYears StartsIntAPP3ST3PTTG2FGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
South Sydney1948-57 165-16525-251--77--111150467.27%List

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