Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Richard Townsend
- Born
- Sunday, 9th February, 1890
- Died
- Friday, 17th August, 1973 (Aged 83 years and 189 days)
- Place Of Birth
- Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- Test Series
- New Zealand vs Australia 1919
- Interstate Series
- 1920
Biography
Newtown junior was graded as a 16-year-old in the club's third grade side in the code's pioneer season of 1908. Townsend returned to the Newtown juniors before making a comeback to grade in 1913. An imposing six-foot forward, he played for Australia in two Tests on the tour of NZ in 1919 before representing with the 1921-22 Kangaroos. A NSW rep against Queensland and England in 1920, Townsend played in the back row in Australia's Second Test win over England at Hull and in 12 other matches.
- ALAN WHITICKER
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 | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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| Tour Matches | Australia | - | 17 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 82.35% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Sydney Firsts | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Test Series | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Interstate Series | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | - | 97 | 25 | - | - | 75 | 42 | 48 | 7 | 43.30% | List | ||||
| City Cup | - | 23 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 43.48% | List | ||||
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Test Matches - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Australia | 1919 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
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Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Combined 1st | 1917 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Rest of NSW Firsts | 1917 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Sydney Firsts | 1920 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Firsts | 1920-21 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Seconds | 1921 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1917-1921 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57.14% | List | ||||
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NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1913 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1914 | 6 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 66.67% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1915 | 12 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 58.33% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1916 | 14 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 28.57% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1917 | 9 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.56% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1918 | 13 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 15.38% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1919 | 6 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1920 | 14 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 57.14% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1921 | 7 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 42.86% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1922 | 13 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 30.77% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1923 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Newtown | 1913-23 | 97 | 25 | - | - | 75 | 42 | 48 | 7 | 43.30% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Rugby League Tables, Greg Fiveash, Tony McCarron, Alan Katzmann, Bill Bates
Sources:
Newspapers
Your Say
01/08/2012
I was a kid growing up in Lord St. Newtown in the 60's, I used to talk to this old man in the street & and outside the SP joint (Dickson Ln) he never told me he was Dick Townsend NRL player, he lived in Darley St. (John)
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