Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Denis Reginald Donoghue
- Born
- Sunday, 17th October, 1926
- Died
- Sunday, 5th December, 1993 (Aged 67 years and 49 days)
- Place Of Birth
- Redfern, New South Wales, Australia
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- Interstate Series
- 1950, 1954
- City vs Country Firsts
- 1951
- NSWRFL Premiership (NRL)
- 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955
Biography
Rabbitohs prop made two Test appearances for Australia against France in 1951 but is best remembered as a great Souths clubman who won five premierships (1950-51 & 1953-55). Donoghue left the club to captain-coach Collegians in the I’warra competition in 1958 but returned to Souths as coach from 1959-63. He had a long career in club administration during the Rabbitohs' last ‘golden era’ in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Additional Notes
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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| Representative Career - International | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests (Senior International Matches) | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Sydney Firsts | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Australia | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Southern Division | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Test Series | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Representative Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Interstate Series | 2 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.00% | List | ||||
| City vs Country Firsts | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Country Carnival | - | 7 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 85.71% | List | ||||
| Club Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | 5 | 165 | 25 | 1 | - | 77 | 111 | 50 | 4 | 67.27% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Finals | - | 18 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 72.22% | List | ||||
| Overall | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||||
| First Class | 177 | 26 | 1 | - | 80 | 115 | 56 | 6 | 64.97% | List | |||||
Test Matches - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Australia | 1951 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Probables (AU) | 1950, 1952, 1954 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33.33% | List | ||||
| NSW Firsts | 1950-51, 1954 | 7 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 42.86% | List | ||||
| Sydney Firsts | 1951-53 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 1 | 66.67% | List | ||||
| NSW City Firsts | 1951 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW City Seconds | 1952, 1954 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Southern Division | 1958 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1950-1958 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 47.06% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1948 | 8 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 37.50% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1949 | 16 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 68.75% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1950 | 17 | 7 | - | - | 21 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 76.47% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1951 | 17 | 2 | 1 | - | 8 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 82.35% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1952 | 19 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 63.16% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1953 | 19 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 63.16% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1954 | 19 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 78.95% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1955 | 20 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 65.00% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1956 | 18 | - | - | - | - | 12 | 6 | 0 | 66.67% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1957 | 12 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| South Sydney | 1948-57 | 165 | 25 | 1 | - | 77 | 111 | 50 | 4 | 67.27% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Gary Neale, Greg Fiveash, Max Turner, Rugby League Tables, Paul Carter, Alan Katzmann, Michael Borg, Wests Archives, Tim Costello, Tony McCarron
Sources:
Fev Archive
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