Ron Coote

Ron Coote

Player information
Full name	Ronald Joseph Coote
birthday	October 25, 1944
place of birth	Sydney , New South Wales , Australia
Nickname	Solid, Prince of Locks
society
society	Career ended
position	Second row striker, third row striker
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
1964-71 1972-1978	South Sydney Rabbitohs Eastern Suburbs Roosters	151 (144) 108 (117)
National team
Years	National team	Games (points)
1965-1975 1967-75	New South Wales Australia	13 (18) 13 (21)
As of October 10, 2015

Ron Coote AM (born October 25, 1944 ) is a former Australian rugby league player, who played his entire club career with the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Eastern Suburbs Roosters , two very hostile clubs from Sydney.

Coote is considered one of the best Australian rugby players of the 20th century, he is among other things a member of the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and the so-called Team of the Century , a list that was drawn up in 2007 to mark 100 years of rugby league in Australia to celebrate and includes the best players from that time. He won the NSWRL six times , four times with the Rabbitohs and twice with the Roosters. With the Australian national team , he won the Rugby League World Cup three times . Since 2007, the Rabbitohs and the Roosters have been playing for a trophy named after him, the Ron Coote Cup, during the regular season .

Career

Coote was born in 1944 in Kingsford , an eastern suburb of Sydney, the son of rugby player Jack Coote . His father played from 1929 to 1937 as a striker for the Roosters, which were then only called Eastern Suburbs, and won the NSWRL with them in 1936.

Coote played in the NSWRL from 1964 to 1978, before the consequences of two arm injuries in 1978 forced him to retire. From 1964 to 1971 he played 151 games for the South Sydney Rabbitohs , in which he put 48 attempts. During this time he won the Grand Final of the NSWRL in 1967, 1968, 1970 and 1971, in 1965 and 1969 you had to give up the St. George Dragons and the Balmain Tigers respectively.

In 1972 he moved to the Eastern Suburbs Roosters , for whom he played until 1978 and put 39 attempts in 108 games. In its first season, the Roosters made it to the Grand Final, in which they had to admit defeat to the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles . In 1974 and 1975 he won two titles in a row with the Roosters.

During this time he completed 23 games for Australia from 1965 to 1975 , with which he won the Rugby League World Cup in 1967, 1970 and 1975 . In 1970 he was captain in three of four games, including the final against Great Britain .

Next life

In 2000, Coote founded the Men of League program to help former players, officials and referees going through tough times.

In 2004 he was elected to the South Sydney Dream Team by the Rabbitohs . The Roosters also voted him into a list of the best players in their club's history.

In 2005 he was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame . In 2008 a list called Australian rugby league's 100 greatest players was published which includes him. In the same year, the New South Wales Blues , the national team of New South Wales , published a list of their best players, which also includes him.

Coote is a lifetime member of the Sydney Cricket Ground and has a plaque on the Walk of Honor there.

Web links

• Ron Coote at eraofthebiff.com
• Statistics on rugbyleagueproject.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.clearinghouseforsport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/98638/Australian_Rugby_League_2005.pdf ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Page 51.