Jack Holmes

  • Playing Career

Playing Career

Vital Statistics

Born
Sunday, 11th December, 1904
Died
Thursday, 10th September, 1931 (Aged 26 years and 272 days)
Place Of Birth
Glebe, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Classy five-eighth spent two seasons of mainly lower grade football with Wests before shifting to Newtown. Holmes represented NSW in 1929 and was chosen to tour with the Kangaroos that year. He scored 5 tries in 12 matches but did play in a Test match during his career (he married a local lass whom he met on tour). Holmes again played for NSW in 1930 but tragically, died in September 1931 from appendicitis, aged 26.
- ALAN WHITICKER AND ANDREW FERGUSON

Playing Career Statistics

All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.

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Competitions

Competition   App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
City Cup 1 - -   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List
NRL 55 11 3   - 39 22 32 1 40.00% List
Country Carnival 3 1 -   - 3 3 0 0 100.00% List
Interstate Matches 3 2 -   - 6 2 1 0 66.67% List
Tour Matches Australia 12 5 -   - 15 9 2 1 75.00% List
City vs Country Firsts 1 - -   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List


Representative

Australia - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
NSW City Seconds 1929 1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List
Combined City 1929 1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List
NSW Firsts 1929-30 6 2 1   - 8 5 1 0 83.33% List
NSW City Firsts 1930 1 - -   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List
Overall1929-1930 9 2 1   0 8 7 2 0 77.78% List


Club Career

NRL/NSWRL - By Year

Team Season App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Western Suburbs NSWRFL 1926 6 4 -   - 12 4 2 0 66.67% List
Newtown NSWRFL 1927 12 2 2   - 10 7 5 0 58.33% List
Newtown NSWRFL 1928 9 1 -   - 3 1 8 0 11.11% List
Newtown NSWRFL 1929 7 1 1   - 5 3 4 0 42.86% List
Newtown NSWRFL 1930 14 3 -   - 9 6 7 1 42.86% List
Newtown NSWRFL 1931 7 - -   - - 1 6 0 14.29% List

NRL/NSWRL - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Western Suburbs 1926 6 4 -   - 12 4 2 0 66.67% List
Newtown 1927-31 49 7 3   - 27 18 30 1 36.73% List
Overall1926-1931 55 11 3   0 39 22 32 1 40.00% List

Your Say

  • Anne Adams
    20/07/2012

    Jack was my great uncle, brother of my late grandmother Eileen Adams nee Holmes. Thank you for this summary.
    Regards

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Contributions: Greg Fiveash, Rugby League Tables, Andrew Ferguson, Alan Katzmann, Shawn Dollin, Paul Carter, Max Turner, Bill Bates