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| Full name | Walter Messenger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 July 1891 Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 January 1961 (aged 69) Clareville, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Relatives | Dally Messenger (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Walter Messenger (9 July 1891 – 1 January 1961) was the youngest son of Charles A. Messenger and Annie (née Atkinson). He was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and into the 1920s. He was a state and national representative winger whose club career was played with Eastern Suburbs in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership.[2]
The younger brother of league great Dally Messenger, Wally Messenger won premierships with Easts in NSWRFL season 1912 and NSWRFL season 1913, playing with his brother as captain.[3]
He made two Test appearances for Australia's National Rugby League team, The Kangaroos in the 1914 domestic Ashes series, kicking three goals on debut and scoring a try in the deciding test of the series. He represented for New South Wales in one match against Queensland also in 1914.[4]
For the 1915 season, he was the NSW Rugby Football League's top point-scorer. Wally Messenger is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No.93.[5]
- ^ Yesterday's Hero
- ^ Fagan, Sean; Messenger III, Dally (2007). The Master : the life and times of Dally Messenger, Australia's first sporting superstar. Sydney, N.S.W.: Hachette Australia. p. 150. ISBN 9780733622007.
- ^ "Player Profile – Wally Messenger". yesterdayshero.com.au. SmartPack International. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
- ^ "sportsmem.com.au". 1914 Australian RL Jersey Maroon & Blue Hoops. Michael Fahey – Sports Memorabilia Australia. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
- ^ ARL Annual Report 2005, page 52