Patrick McCue

Australia dual-code rugby international footballer & Olympian

Rugby player

Paddy McCue

McCue, c. 1908

Birth name| Patrick Aloysius McCue[1][2]
Date of birth| (1883-06-24)24 June 1883[1]
Place of birth| Sydney, New South Wales
Date of death| 7 September 1962(1962-09-07) (aged 79)[1]
Place of death| Cronulla, New South Wales
Notable relative(s)| Jim McCue (brother)
Rugby union career
| Position(s)|  lock[1]

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Amateur team(s)
Years|  Team|  Apps|  (Points)
|  Newtown RUFC|  |  ()
International career
Years|  Team|  Apps|  (Points)
1907–08|  Wallabies|  4|  (0)

Rugby league career

Playing information

Position| Second-row
| Club

Years  | Team  | Pld | T | G | FG | P
1910–16  | Newtown | 81  |  |  |  | 116
Representative
Years  | Team  | Pld | T | G | FG | P
1911–12  | New South Wales | 2  |  |  |  | 6
1911–14  | Australia | 4  |  |  |  | 6

Medal record

Men's rugby union
Representing  Australasia
Olympic Games
| 1908 London | Team competition

Patrick Aloysius McCue (24 June 1883 – 10 September 1962) was an Australian representative rugby union player and pioneer rugby league footballer. He was a dual-code rugby international and an Olympic gold medallist.[3]

## Rugby union career

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1908 Olympic Gold Final Wallabies v Cornwall

A forward with the Newtown Rugby Union club in Sydney, McCue was selected on the first Wallaby tour of England in 1908–1909, the squad captained by Herbert Moran. That side competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, and McCue was a member of the Australia national rugby union team captained by Chris McKivat, which won the gold medal. Paddy McCue also coached the St. George Rugby Union Club in the 1930s.[4]

## Rugby league club career

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Along with fourteen of his Olympic Wallaby teammates, on his return to Australia, he negotiated to take part in promotional matches against the Pioneer Kangaroos. He was promptly banned from the amateur code by the Metropolitan Rugby Union. McCue and a number of the rebels joined the Newtown club in Sydney in 1910. They included gold medallist Wallabies John "Jumbo" Barnett and Charles "Boxer" Russell. He helped the club win premiership honours that year, playing at second-row forward in the 1910 NSWRFL season's final.

McCue played seven seasons with Newtown and after retiring as a player was assistant coach of the University club in its inaugural first grade season of 1920. He later returned to rugby union, coaching the University rugby union team in seasons 1926, 1927, 1932, 1935, 1942, 1943 and 1944.[5] Paddy McCue was the elder brother of Jim McCue, who also played with Newtown between 1911 and 1919.

In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, McCue was named in the Newtown Jets 18-man team of the century.

## Rugby league representative career

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McCue was selected to represent New South Wales in 1911 and later led New South Wales as captain on the 1912-13 tour of New Zealand.

He was selected on the 1911–12 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, which was an Australasian squad including four New Zealanders. McCue made his international rugby league debut in the first Test of 1911 at Newcastle upon Tyne and played in all three Tests of the series, as well as in twenty other minor tour matches, scoring seven tries all told on the tour. His final international appearance was in the first test of the 1914 domestic Ashes series.[6]

McCue back row 5th from left, with the 1908 Wallaby tour squad

## See also

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* Rugby union at the 1908 Summer Olympics

## Footnotes

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1. ^ a b c d "Scrum.com player profile of Paddy McCue". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
2. ^ other sources report his date of birth 1 June 1883
3. ^ "Patrick McCue". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
4. ^ The Referee, Sydney (5/8/1937) "The Secrets of St. George's Revival"
5. ^ "Patrick McCue, Lock, Wallaby #79". Historical Wallabies Player Profile. Australian Rugby Union. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
6. ^ Whittacker/Hudson: The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. 1995 ISBN 1875169571

## References

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* Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney
* Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney

## External links

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* Patrick McCue at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 February 2007)
* Paddy McCue at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
* Paddy McCue at RLP
* Patrick McCue at ESPNscrum
* Patrick McCue at the Australian Olympic Committee
* Patrick McCue at Olympedia

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1908 Australasian Olympic team

Athletics|

* Victor Aitken
* George Blake
* Ernest Hutcheon
* Harry Kerr†
* Joseph Lynch
* Henry Murray†
* Albert Rowland†
* Harvey Sutton
* Charles Swain

Boxing|

* Snowy Baker

Diving|

* Snowy Baker

Rugby union|

* John "Jumbo" Barnett
* Phil Carmichael
* Daniel Carroll
* Bob Craig
* Tom Griffin
* John Hickey
* Malcolm McArthur
* Arthur McCabe
* Patrick McCue
* Chris McKivat
* Charles McMurtrie
* Sydney Middleton
* Tom Richards
* Charles Russell
* Francis Bede-Smith

Shooting|

* William Hill

Swimming|

* Snowy Baker
* Frank Beaurepaire
* Edward Cooke
* Frank Springfield
* Theo Tartakover

† New Zealand nationals

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Newtown squad \- 1910 NSWRFL Premiers (1st title)

* 1\. William Neill
* 2\. Charles Russell (Capt./Coach)
* 3\. Viv Farnsworth
* 4\. Albert Hawkes
* 5\. Fred Munnery
* 6\. Bill Farnsworth
* 7\. William Hayes

* 8\. J. Morgan
* 9\. J. Chevall
* 10\. David Grundie
* 11\. John Barnett
* 12\. Patrick McCue
* 13\. Joe Murray

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Newtown Jets Team of the Century (1908-2007)

* 1\. Gordon Clifford
* 2\. Lionel Williamson
* 3\. Dick Poole
* 4\. Charles Russell
* 5\. Len Smith
* 6\. Bill Farnsworth
* 7\. Keith Froome

* 8\. Frank Farrell (c)
* 9\. Arthur Folwell
* 10\. Paddy McCue
* 11\. Herb Narvo
* 12\. Graham Wilson
* 13\. Noel Mulligan

* 14\. Phil Sigsworth
* 15\. Brian Moore
* 16\. Tony Brown
* 17\. Felix Ryan
* 18\. Paul Quinn

* Coach: Warren Ryan

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