Sydney University Cricket Club ANNUAL REPORTS AND CLUB records:
As part of the Club's Sesqui-centenary celebrations, the club has undertaken the painstaking process of digitising club records and documents from as early as 1878.
The Club warmly thanks The Chancellor's Committee for the assistance and resources provided to us in this project. It is only through an invaluable Chancellor's Committee grant that this project was capable of coming to life.
1876/79 to 1959/60:
1960/61 to 1968/69:
1969/70 to 1978/79
1979/80 to 1988/89:
1989/90 to 1998/99:
1999/2000 to 2008/09:
2009/10 to 2013/14
2014/15 to 2022/23
CLUB ADMINISTRATION RECORDS
OFFICE BEARERS
Patron (1868-1887 and then reinstituted in 1939)
Sir Edward Deas Thomson 1868- 1880
Sir William Manning 1880-1887 (KCMG,QC)
A B S White 1939-1944
R J A Massie 1944-1946
Dr T B Clouston 1946-1962
Capt J C Morris 1962-1975
Sir Hermann Black KBE 1975-1990
Dr W J Mackie 1990-2003
A B Crompton OAM 2003- 2020
J F Rodgers 2020-
President
Prof M B Pell 1864-1879
H Kennedy 1879-1881
Sir George Allen 1881-1882
Prof A Liversidge 1882-1891
H M Faithfull 1891-1909
Dr F D Kent 1909-1920
Dr N M Gregg 1920-1921
J B Lane 1921-1926
Dr A I Blue 1926-1927
A B S White 1927-1928
R J A Massie 1928-1929
S G Webb QC OBE 1929-1944
J O Stenmark 1944-1956
Capt J C Morris 1956-1962
F F Munro 1962-1965
Dr W J Mackie 1965-1973
G J Scahill 1973-1976
W A South QC 1976-1978
A B Crompton OAM 1978-2000
Hon Justice R Gyles QC 2000-2003
I E Fisher 2003-2004
B W Collins KC 2004- 2023
Mark Faraday 2023 - (Newly Incorporated Club Board)
Chairman (instituted in 1997)
J F Rodgers 1997-1998
I W Foulsham 1998-2005
MW O’Sullivan 2005-2013
J F Rodgers 2013-2015
Prof M T B Bonnell 2015-2018
AF Theobald 2018- 2022
Mark Faraday 2022- 2023
The Club Incorporated in 2023 and the Board Structure was amended accordingly.
Life Members (instituted in 1970)
S G Webb QC OBE (dec’d 1976)1971
Dr W J Mackie 1971
Capt J C Morris (dec’d 1976) 1974
G J Scahill 1977
F E McElhone (dec’d 1981) 1978
A B Crompton OAM (dec’d 2022) 1983
E B Le Couteur 1996
M W O’Sullivan (dec’d 2013) 1996
Prof D D Ridley 1996
J F Rodgers 1996
I E Fisher 1999
B W Collins QC 2003
I E Foulsham 2005
M Farrow 2005
P W Logan 2007
D Quoyle 2007
G Harris 2008
D A Butchart 2010
L J Carrington 2014
G H Pike 2014
A F Theobald 2014
G J Mail 2017
M W B Faraday 2017
Honorary Secretaries (Since 1868)
R C Teece 1868-72
J M Purves 1868-69
R M Sly 1869-71
D Fisher 1871-72
E Barton 1872-75
G E R Jones 1872-74
F Bundock 1874-75
G E R Jones 1875-77
W C Wilkinson 1875-77
J H Carruthers 1877-78
H Feez 1877-78
R M Sly 1878-80
T W Garrett 1880-85
T Powell 1885-86
A Eden 1887-88
R C Allen 1888-90
A H Garnsey 1891-92
H H Terrey 1892-94
J P Strickland 1894-96
W D Cargill 1896-98
W H Gregson 1898-99
W B Dight 1899-1900
J W Woodburn 1900-02
E F Waddy 1902-03
F C Rogers 1903-04
J S Harris 1904-05
W F Matthews 1905-07
G D MacIntosh 1907-09
O B Williams 1909-10
L C Terrey 1910-11
C J Tozer 1911-14
C G Prescott 1914-15
H V Evatt 1915-16
R Bardsley 1916-17
L C Donovan 1917-18
J Bogle 1918-19
J Clemenger 1919-20
H M deBurgh 1920-21
C H Lawes 1921-22
J H Mould 1922-23
A D Mayes 1923-25
W G Wilson 1925-26
H V Single 1926-27
C Cay 1927-28
J E P Hogg 1928-29
G C Hogg 1929-30
A L Cohen 1930-31
J Hellmrich 1931-32
R A C Rogers 1932-33
N Falk 1933-34
I B Fleming 1934-35
T Glasheen 1935-36
J A Meillon 1936-37
H J Delohery 1937-38
J F Connelly 1938-40
L Seward 1940-41
H B Todhunter 1940-42
E J Halliday 1941-42
G S Smith 1942-44
K Dan 1944-45
D Howell 1945-46
J M Coppleson 1945-46
A R Cumming Thom 1945-46
B R Handley 1946-48
D Dickins 1948-50
D A deCarvalho 1950-51
D R Cristofani 1951-52
D A deCarvalho 1952-53
P B Hall 1953-55
C Pearson 1955-56
P Whiteley 1956-57
J W Peden 1957-59
J A L Blazey 1959-60
C Roberts 1959-60
P L Jeffrey 1960-61
E B LeCouteur 1961-63
P Cross 1963-65
P H Scanlan 1965-66
R E Alexander 1966-68
R C Mesley 1968-69
I W Foulsham 1969-70
D Armati 1969-70
A B Crompton (dec’d) 1970-73
A J Falk 1973-74
D D Ridley 1974-77
M F Sewell 1977-80
J F Rodgers 1980-84
S Quartermain 1984-85
P Glenday 1985-88
M T B Bonnell 1988-89
P J Rodgers 1989-91
M T B Bonnell 1991-92
M Evans 1992-94
D C Cheever 1994-97
A Pearson 1997-98
K Parker 1998-99
Executive Officers
W Turnbull 1998-99
P Clarke 1999-2002
D Quoyle 2002-06
B Burgess 2006-07
G de Mesquita 2007-13
R Barrett 2013-14
D Bryant 2014-19
C Robertson 2019-
SUCC FOUNDATION (CREATED 1989)
Chairman
E B Le Couteur 1989 - 2004
J F Rodgers 2004 - 2007
M E Wilson 2007
P W Logan 2008 - 2020
D Miller 2020-
Secretary
J A Grimble 1989-2004
E B Le Couteur 2004-06
M E Wilson 2006-07
G de Mesquita 2007-13
D Bryant 2014-19
C Robertson 2019 -
Treasurer
N Raffan 2004-08
L J Carrington 2008-15 (not required- administered by USSF)
ACB, NSWCA & SCA REPRESENTATION & HONOURS
Life Members NSWCA
Sir Joseph Carruthers 1927
(President NSWCA 1908-14)
Sir Colin Sinclair 1927
R C Teece 1927
T W Garrett 1936
R B Minnett 1936
T R McKibbin 1936
J M Taylor 1936
R C M Boyce 1943
S G Webb QC OBE 1944
R J A Massie 1944
Dr H V Evatt KC 1951
J O Stenmark 1956
A B Crompton OAM (dec’d 2022) 1983 (Chairman NSW Cricket Board 1988-97)
Vice-Presidents NSWCA
E Barton (later Sir Edmund) 1882-1885
J Coates 1890-1893
H M Faithfull 1890-1895
R C Teece 1897-1898
Sir Joseph Carruthers 1895-1907
Dr H V Evatt, K.C 1935-1955
R J A Massie 1939-1946
Hon Secretary NSWCA
R C Teece 1868-1870
Hon Treasurers NSWCA
R C Teece 1882
H M Stephen 1904-1907
Australian Cricket Board Delegates
G P Barbour 1909
Sir Colin Sinclair 1909-1912
(ACB Hon Sec & Hon Treas 1909-11)
S G Webb QC OBE 1955-1972
A B Crompton OAM 1980-1997 (Chairman 1992-95)
B W Collins QC 2004-05
Country Committee NSWCA
R C M Boyce 1921-1922
Grade Committee NSWCA
J B Lane 1913-1914
A B Crompton OAM (dec’d 2022) 1973-1979
M F Sewell 1979-1982
SCA Committee of Management
J F Rodgers 1985 -1993
(Deputy Chairman SCA 1989 -1993)
B W Collins QC (Chairman SCA) 2001 - 2009
G J Mail 2015 - 2016
NSW Selectors
T W Garrett 1882-1902
L O S Poidevin 1923-24
E P Barbour 1931-33
I E Fisher 1979-84
G J Mail 2013-16
Life Members of SCA
M W O’Sullivan 2002
J F Rodgers 2004
M T B Bonnell 2016
G J Mail 2017
I A Moran 2019
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GOLDEN BLUES.
SYDNEY UNIVERSITY CRICKET:
150 YEARS OF THE CLUB AND ITS PLAYERS
With 2014-15 representing the 150th Anniversary of cricket at Sydney University, Sydney Uni Cricket produced a book entitled "Golden Blues. Sydney University Cricket: 150 years of the club and its players", superbly written and compiled by club stalwarts and resident historians, Max Bonnell and James Rodgers. The book details some of the key moments, periods, matches and players of our rich 150-year history.
Thanks go to The Chancellor's Committee for the assistance and resources provided to compile this wonderful snapshot of our history. Established in 1977, The Chancellor's Committee is a group of volunteers who raise money for projects of university-wide significance. Please click here to visit them.
SU CRICKET TIMELINE:
11 October 1852: The inauguration ceremony of the University of Sydney.
1-8 April 1854: The first recorded game featuring Sydney University (vs The Garrison at the Military and Civil Ground…now known as the Sydney Cricket Ground).
17 March 1858: The first recorded game at Sydney University Oval (University vs St Paul's)
1864-65: SUCC revived and formally constituted.
24-27 December 1870: The first Inter varsity match (vs Melbourne University at MCG).
1871-72: SUCC wins the ‘Challenge Cup’ to become the premier Club in Sydney.
March 1877: The first ever Test Match. Australia vs England at MCG. The Australian side includes University’s Tom Garrett, at 18 years, still the youngest Australian Test player.
1882-85: SUCC is awarded the ‘Challenge Cup’ in perpetuity as the Premier Club in Sydney.
1890: Sydney University Sports Union inaugurated.
1893-94: The first season of ‘Electoral Cricket’, the forerunner of ‘Grade Cricket’. SUCC is the only ‘non-electoral’ club permitted to participate.
1897-98: SUCC withdraws from the Competition.
1898-1902: SUCC 1st XI participates in the 2nd Grade Competition and wins two premierships.
1902-03: SUCC readmitted to 1st Grade.
1909-14: The ‘Golden Age’ when SUCC wins three 1st Grade premierships in five seasons and produces multiple first class representatives.
1914-19: SUCC’s ranks are decimated by the demands of Australia’s involvement in World War 1. Eleven SUCC players are killed.
1919-26: SUCC resumes its dominant position in Grade cricket.
1939-45: Australia is again at war and large numbers of students defer studies and join the armed forces. The Grade competition is suspended during the war years.
1956-57: 1st Grade contests the semi finals for the first time in over 30 years.
1960-66: 2nd Grade contests the finals in six successive seasons, winning three consecutive premierships.
1971-72: The beginning of a period of significant lower grades’ success. Between 1973 and 2000, SUCC wins 18 lower grade premierships.
1988-89: Alan Crompton becomes the first SUCC member to be elected as Chairman of the NSW Cricket Board. In 1992-93, he is elected as Chairman of the ACB.
1996-97: NSWCA’s strategic plan recommends that ‘SUCC should be repositioned in the Sydney Shires competition’ for 1997-98, a recommendation that was, in the same year, rescinded.
1997-98: SUCC fields a AW Green Shield (under 16) team for the first time. The beginning of a resurgence.
2000-01: SUCC wins the Club Championship for the first time.
2002-03: SUCC wins the 1st Grade premiership for the first time in 89 years.
2011-12: Ed Cowan becomes the first ‘home-grown’ SUCC player to represent Australia in Test cricket for nearly 90 years.
2002-15: SUCC wins three Club Championships, five 1st Grade premierships and six 2nd Grade Premierships (including four in succession).
2013-14: SUCC’s 150th season is marked by the Club Championship, the 1st Grade, 2nd Grade and 6th Grade premierships.
2016-17: SUCC claims the 1st Grade premiership, the fourth in seven seasons.
2018-19: SUCC claims the Club Championship by record number of points.
2019-20: SUCC claims the First Grade One Day Cup, the second time in 3 years. Third and Fourth Grade are Premiers in a Covid-19 shortened season. Hayden Kerr is joint Bill O’Reilly Medal winner. Liam Robertson (First Grade) and Henry Clark (Third Grade) are announced grade captains of the year.
1st Grade Scorers
The following information has been taken largely from SUCC Annual Reports. If readers can fill in missing details, please contact James Rodgers: jfrodgers9994@gmail.com
1853-54 to 1904-05. None recorded
1905-06. Mr WJ Howe
1906-07. Mr Thomas Howe
1907-08. Mr Birrell
1908-09. ?
1909-10. Messrs L Lehmaier and H Plant
1910-11. AL Stafford, H Boyce, H Plant
1911-12 to 1914-15. Mr J Biggs
1915-16 to 1926-27. ?
1927-28. Mr H McDonald
1928-29. Mr AP Cohen
1929-30 to 1931-32. ?
1932-33 to 1938-39. Mr H Aizelwood
1939-40, Mr J Quilke
1940-41 to 1942-43. ?
1943-44. Miss Helen Cox
1944-45. Mrs F Ring
1945-46. Mrs Olive Smith
1946-47. ?
1947-48. Mrs Molloy
1948-49 to 1950-51. ?
1951-52. Messrs JJ Hanley and R Cristofani snr
1952-53. Mr JJ Hanley
1953-54. ?
1954-55 to 1956-57. Mr de Carvalho snr and Mr Bernie Amos snr
1957-58. Mr Bernie Amos snr, Fergus Munro snr
1958-59 to 1973-74. Captain JC ('Skip') Morris
1974-75 to 1979-80. Jack Smith
1980-81. Steve McQuilty
1981-82 to 1987-88. Peter Glenday
1988-89. Natalie Smith
1989-90 to 1993-94. Gary Saint
1994-95 to 1999-2000. Ron Grimble
2000-01 to Current - John Kilford
THE PATRONS OF SYDNEY UNIVERSTY CRICKET CLUB
There have been ten Patrons during the Club’s existence.
The first two were appointed by reason of their position at the University:
Sir Edward Deas-Thomson (1800-1879) was Patron from 1868 until 1879 during which time he was also the fourth Chancellor of the University.
Sir William Montagu Manning (1811-1895) succeeded Deas-Thomson as Patron of the Club from 1880 until 1887 and also succeeded him as Chancellor of the University.
Neither Deas-Thomson nor Sir William Manning ever played for the Club.
For some reason, the position was then vacant from 1887 until the appointment of ABS White in 1939.
Then, RJA Massie served as Patron from 1944 when White retired until Massie himself was forced to relinquish the position when he was appointed as Chairman of British and American Tobacco Company in London in 1946.
Both White and Massie had distinguished playing careers with the Club and both had represented NSW.
Massie was succeeded by Dr Thomas Clouston (1946-1962), Captain John Morris (1962-1975), Sir Hermann Black (1975-1990), Dr Jim Mackie (1990-2003), Alan Crompton (2003-2020) and James Rodgers (2020- ).
This is the story of the fifth Patron, Dr Tom Clouston (1878-1962). Stories of the other eight will follow.
TB Clouston was born in Ireland but emigrated to Australia with his parents in 1881. His father, Reverend Thomas Edward Clouston (1849-1913), was a Presbyterian Minister, appointed to the parish of Penrith from 1881 until 1891 and then to Glebe for the next twenty years. He also lectured in Historical Theology at St Andrew’s College within the University and was later a Professor of New Testament Theology and Church History. He rose to the position of Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Australia.
One TB Clouston’s sisters was Mary who married Percy William Dive who played one game for NSW as a 41 year old leg spinner but their daughter, TB Clouston’s niece, was Mary (Mollie) Dive, captain of Sydney University Women’s Club, captain of NSW and captain of Australia. A grandstand at North Sydney Oval is named in her honour.
TB Clouston studied Medicine at the University, graduating in 1905. During his undergraduate years he played 3rd Grade for the Club during 1901-02 at least. He was Secretary of the 3rd XI and one of the team’s selectors. Records of that team and any other that TB Clouston may have played for are now unfortunately lost.
He married Muriel Isabel (nee Smail) in 1906 but his medical career at Pambula and Tumut, and enlistment as a Captain in the Medical Corps of the 1st AIF in 1918 took him out of Sydney for many years.
Following RJA Massie’s retirement as Patron in 1946, the Club turned to Dr Clouston, who may not have had much close connection with the Club for over 40 years, to fill the position. In the early 1940s, he once again supported the Club and was closely associated with the Veteran’s XI, serving as Secretary to the Vets and as a Delegate to the City and Suburban competition. Despite his advanced age (he was in his 70s for most of his time as Patron) and increasing immobility (he eventually had both legs amputated), he was much respected and admired. He took especial interest in the Veterans’ XI which was at the time made up of graduates, former playing members of the Club.
When he died in April 1962, FC Rogers, who had played for the Club at about the same time as Dr Clouston, wrote a heartfelt obituary for the Annual Report and one of the Veterans paid this fine tribute:
“Our beloved Patron, a familiar figure to so many of us during past cricket seasons…Courage comes in many different forms but none so rare as that shown by Doctor Tom.”
A half brother (his father remarried when his first wife died) was Edgar Boyd Clouston, a Medicine I student in 1914, who died of wounds in Belgium in September 1917, aged 22. He may have also played for the Club in 1914.
James Rodgers
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THE PATRONS
ALFRED BEECHER STEWART WHITE 1879-1962
PATRON 1939-1944
ABS White has a record that’s unlikely to be approached or broken.
His last game in Grade Cricket for SUCC as an undergraduate was in October 1900. In the first two rounds of the 1900-01 season, he opened the batting for the Club’s 1st XI which was in exile, playing in the 2nd Grade competition for four seasons because of a protracted and acrimonious dispute over the eligibility of players for SUCC. White scored 60 against Norths and then 25 against Burwood before sailing to England.
His next game in Grade cricket for SUCC occurred 41 years later in 1941-42. These were grim seasons when many cricketers had enlisted. There were one day games only between the clubs but no Premierships were contested. SUCC struggled to fill a 3rd XI. Enlistments, military camps and the inevitable long vacation reduced available players to a trickle. The Club was granted a dispensation and two Graduates were permitted to play in 3rd Grade. Nevertheless, 53 players took the field for the 3rds during the season. The Club turned to its venerable Patron, ABS White, to captain the side. His sense of duty and responsibility to the Club characterized his response. White had been playing most successfully for the Veterans for over 30 years. He had an enviable record for North Sydney CC after graduation and had played four times for NSW. He and Syd Webb, the President of the Club, (who also returned to Grade cricket in the 3rd Grade side) held SUCC together during these trying times.
Limited statistics were published for the 1941-42 3rd Grade side. We know that Matthews scored 329 runs; that Wilkinson scored 287 runs and that Fred Smith, who had played two years in 1st Grade before the War, took 36 wickets. Did ABS White also score runs as he had been doing in almost every level of cricket for 50 years? After all, in his last two seasons with the Veterans, 1936-37 and 1937-38, he’d been dismissed only three times and had averaged 129. Unfortunately, no other statistics for 1941-42 survive. It was, however, an extraordinary comeback for a player aged 62.
Alfred Beecher Stewart White had been born 4 October 1879 at Mudgee, one of three sons and three daughters, to Robert Hoddle Drieberg White 1838-1900 and Eliza Jane (nee Cowper) 1844-1927. He was sent to the newly established Sydney Church of England Grammar (‘Shore’) School and quickly showed promise as a cricketer, an upright batsman who scored runs with his technically correct on drives and deft late and back cuts. His first game for the school 1st XI was on 1 November 1893, just after he had turned 14, against Newington in the newly formed GPS Cricket competition. He batted at number three and made 13 which was the highest score in Shore’s dismal 46. In his second game a few weeks later, he opened the batting with Gother Clarke who was to represent NSW and to be killed during the Great War. For most of the rest of his long career, White went in first. Shore’s batting was consistently weak but White stood out, averaging 30 in his first season, but even he could not stop the inevitable collapses in 1894 when, aged 15, he captained Shore’s 1st XI. Successive all-out scores of 29, 25, 45, 64, 60, 27, 42 and 8 for 35 characterised Shore’s abysmal season when they won no games and finished last. From then on, until 1898, Shore relied on White and he rarely disappointed, scoring 2745 runs @ 45.7 in all 1st XI games including 163 not out in the 1898 game against Newington at Stanmore. He bowled tidily.
Going up to the University in 1898, he had developed into a tall, well-built athlete who easily fitted in with the University 1st XI, unfortunately playing in the 2nd Grade competition only. He also represented the University Football (Rugby) Club. For the cricket team, he scored a century on debut, 117 not out against Manly, accumulated 617 runs @68.5, and took 32 cheap wickets. In 1899-1900, his form fell away (259 runs @28.8) because of his studies, so it was said, and in 1900-01 he played just two matches, despite election to the Club’s Committee, before sailing to England. His SUCC Grade career seemed to have finished. He returned to Sydney, married Adele Julie (nee Pitt) in 1903 and resumed his Grade career, this time with North Sydney and took his first steps in the family’s stockbroking firm, ‘ABS and Co’.
He played briefly for North Sydney’s 1st Grade side in 1903-04 and also, when he was available, for the SUCC Veterans, where he scored 392 runs @49 and took 20 cheap wickets. His beginning to the 1904-05 season, however, can scarcely have been more explosive. In North’s 2nd Grade, he began with an astounding 278 not out in a total of 8 for 698 against the hapless Manly side. This 278 has, for 119 seasons, remained the highest individual score in 2nd Grade among all Clubs. White followed this with 149 against Glebe and after two rounds had scored 427 runs @427. Within thirteen months, he had made his 1st class debut for NSW against Queensland. Restored to 1st Grade, he continued his batting marathons at the crease: 198 not out against Middle Harbour in 1905-06, then, 151 in a trial match for the NSW 2nds. In 1906-07 in a similar trial game he scored 181.
The Sydney Morning Herald commented:
“His style is different from most of our leading players, but he is one of our soundest batsmen, also a good field.”
What was “different” about his “style” was not explained but he kept scoring runs, eventually finishing with 2172 runs @49.36 for North Sydney.
Spread across four seasons, he represented NSW four times, all against Queensland , finishing with 291 runs @48.5 including a score of 147 in his last 1st class season, 1908-09. He batted 250 minutes for his 147 in Brisbane and hit 15 fours. In Sydney in January 1909 he was captain of a NSW side that lost by two wickets. He contributed only 21 and 8 with the bat and his 1st class career was over. He had also played for NSW in a two-day game against Fiji in 1907-08 when he scored another century and took 4-18 with his off breaks.
For the next 30 years, he continued to dominate the SUCC Veterans’ averages. When many of the pre-war players returned to cricket it was to play for ‘The Vets’. For instance, in 1921-22, White was joined by Jack Massie, Paddy Lane, Cecil Rogers, Joe Woodburn, Hugh Massie, George Willcocks, Archie Blue, Iven Mackay, AH Garnsey, Percy Penman who had all represented SUCC’S 1st Grade with distinction in the earlier years of the 20th century. Without flourish, White once again scored most runs, 539 @49 and again took cheap wickets, 23 @12. Jack Massie, a decorated and severely wounded war hero, however, bowling now off a few paces, was unplayable. His 85 wickets for 829 remains, unsurprisingly, a record for the SUCC Vets.
ABS White continued to turn out for and, most often, captain the Vets. His form, even approaching his sixties was irresistible as he accumulated over 7000 runs and took over 400 wickets. He simply scored runs wherever he played.
He still took a great interest in the Club and served as President for a time.
Then, in 1939, the Club resurrected the position of ‘Patron’ which had remained unfilled for over 50 years and it was ABS White who presided then for the next five seasons, including 1941-42 when he answered a most unlikely request to return to Grade cricket.
Even after stepping down as Patron in favour of Jack Massie, White continued his lively interest in the Club which only ceased when he died in 1962.
ABS White’s son, Edward Clive Stewart (Ted) White 1913-1999, was a tall slow left arm bowler who played 56 first class matches after graduating from Shore School in 1932. For the Shore 1st XI he took 175 wickets in four full seasons and scored over 1000 runs. Selection in North Sydney’s 1st Grade was followed by a first class career that spanned the seasons from 1934 to 1939. He took 8 for 31 against South Australia in 1935-36 on a rain-affected pitch and he was taken to England with the 1938 Australian side. In a dry English summer his bowling did not have the impact that was hoped for and he was not used in any of the Test Matches. He served in World War II and was eventually promoted to the rank of Major. After the War, he resumed his cricket career, this time with IZingari, and was still bowling well enough approaching his sixties to capture 823 wickets for the club during a career of over 20 years.
James Rodgers
Acknowledgements to Max Bonnell and Dr Colin Clowes.
THE 85+ TEAM
THOSE WHO PLAYED FOR SUCC AND WHO WERE BORN BEFORE 1940 AND ARE STILL LIVING.
(CORRECT AS AT 8.8.2024).
Bert Alderson. born 14.12.1924.
Donald Scott-Orr. 22.7.1930.
Vic Cristofani. 4.6.1931.
Trevor Mitchell. 9.5.1933.
Saxon White. 9.3.1934.
Graham Reed. 20.10.1934.
Neil Bonnell. 2.5.1935.
John Laurie. 31.8.1935.
Angus Talbot. 11.8.1936.
Barry Andrews. 11.9.1936.
Robert Laurie. 5.11.1936.
ER (Tom) Dodd. 5.8.1937.
Jon Erby. 19.5.1938.
Alan Cash. 24.5.1938.
Mac Chambers. 10.8.1938.
Roger Gyles. 27.8.1938.
John Blazey 29.8.1938.
Michael O'Dea. 11.11.1938.
RN (Dick) Towsend. 12.11.1938
Frank Wagner. 17.11.1938
Ian Fisher. 28.5.1939.
NEXT IN LINE. NOT YET 85:
Peter Lovell. 2.1.1940
Malcolm Ives. 25.7.1940.
JS (Scott) Harbison. 5.11.1940.
Fergus Munro. 2.5.1941.
Greg Russell. 20.5.41
Bob Grant. 11.12.1941.
Hartley Anderson. 2.11.1942.
WC (Bill) Goff.
NB. The following are thought to be 85+ but exact birthdays have not yet been found.
Graham Ireland
Jock Murray
MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY UNIVERSITY CC
KILLED IN SERVICE OF AUSTRALIA
WORLD WAR I
Major John Nicholas Fraser Armstrong
(SUCC 1902-04)
died 5 July 1916, France, aged 38
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Captain William Robert Aspinall MC
(SUCC 1912-14)
died 20 July 1917, France, aged 24
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Lieutenant Robert Anthony Barton
(SUCC 1914-15)
died 9 June 1917, Messines, France, aged 22
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Lieutenant Alan Russell Blacket
(SUCC 1913-15)
died 16 August 1916, France, aged 22
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Captain Norman Walford Broughton DSO
(SUCC 1908-15)
died 10 September 1917, The Somme, France, aged 28
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Major Gother Robert Carlisle Clarke
(SUCC 1894-97),
died 12 October 1917, at Zonnebeke, Belgium, aged 42
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Lieutenant Edgar Boyd Clouston
(SUCC 1913-1914),
died 26 September 1917, Polygon Wood, Belgium, aged 22
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Sergeant William Hilder Gregson
(SUCC 1895-1901),
died 14 November 1916, Guedecourt, France, aged 39
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Corporal Clifford Dawson Holliday
(SUCC 1914-16),
died 20 July 1916, Fromelles, France, aged 21
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Captain Roger Forrest Hughes
(SUCC 1908-13),
died 11 December 1916, Flers, France, aged 26
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Gunner Eric Neal Clamp Leggo
(SUCC 1916-17),
died 20 October 1918, France, aged 25
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Lieutenant Colonel Henry Normand MacLaurin
(SUCC 1896-99)
died 27 April 1915, Gallipoli, aged 36
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Private Alan David Mitchell
(SUCC 1911-12)
died 5 May 1915, Cairo, Egypt, aged 23
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Lieutenant Alexander Roxburgh Muir MC
(SUCC 1914 -15),
died 13 October 1917, Ypres, Belgium, aged 22
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Lance Corp. Clarence Garfield Page, MM
(SUCC 1911-13)
died 22 July 1916, Pozieres, France, aged 27
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Lieutenant Elliot D’Arcy Slade
(SUCC 1911-12)
died 30 March 1918, Villers Bretonneaux, France, aged 23
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Captain Arthur (Johnnie) Verge
(SUCC 1899-1904)
died 8 September 1915, at Alexandria, Egypt, aged 35
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Captain John Stuart Dight Walker, MC.
(SUCC 1904-07)
died 21 July 1918, at Merris Nord, France, aged 32
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WORLD WAR II
Captain Stephen Denis Foley
(SUCC 1934-37)
died 14 May 1943, at sea off the Qld coast, aged 27
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Lance Sergeant Jack Thomas Garvin
(SUCC 1922-24)
died 4 June 1945, Labuan, Borneo, aged 43
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Major Llondha Holland
(SUCC 1920-21)
died 14 May 1943, at sea off the Qld coast, aged 41
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Flying Officer Jack Ledgerwood
(SUCC 1939-41),
died 21 September 1943, Steeple, UK, aged 21
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Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street
(SUCC 1912-14)
died 13 August 1940, Canberra, aged 46
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Captain Laurence Edward Tansey
(SUCC 1936-37),
died 17 August 1943, at sea near Bowen, Qld, aged 24
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Pilot Officer John Alan Traill
(SUCC 1941-42),
died 18 June 1944, at Gannes, France, aged 21
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Major Ian Firth Vickery
(SUCC 1931-39),
died 27 November 1942, Soputa, New Guinea, aged 28
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OTHERS NOT ON WAR SERVICE WHO DIED WHILE PLAYING CRICKET FOR SUCC
Robert Martin Gibson (SUCC 1899-1901) Arts
Died 2 February 1901 aged 21
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Ronald G Harris (SUCC 1922-1927)
1ST Grade Captain 1927
Med V.
Died 15 December 1927 aged 24
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Ross Arthur Kelly (SUCC 1969) Ag Science (Economics) II
Died December 1969 aged 22
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Athol Stanley Davis (SUCC 1992-1994)
Died 27 December 1994 aged 21
THE 85+ TEAM, THOSE WHO PLAYED FOR SUCC AND WHO WERE BORN BEFORE 1940 WHO ARE STILL LIVING. CORRECT AS AT 27.7.2024.
Bert Alderson. born 14.12.1924.
Donald Scott-Orr. 22.7.1930.
Vic Cristofani. 4.6.1931.
Trevor Mitchell. 9.5.1933.
Saxon White. 9.3.1934.
Graham Reed. 20.10.1934.
Neil Bonnell. 2.5.1935.
John Laurie. 31.8.1935.
Angus Talbot. 11.8.1936.
Barry Andrews. 11.9.1936.
Robert Laurie. 5.11.1936.
ER (Tom) Dodd. 5.8.1937.
Jon Erby. 19.5.1938.
Alan Cash. 24.5.1938.
Mac Chambers. 10.8.1938.
Roger Gyles. 27.8.1938.
John Blazey 29.8.1938.
Michael O'Dea. 11.11.1938.
RN (Dick) Towsend. 12.11.1938
Ian Fisher. 28.5.1939.
NEXT IN LINE. NOT YET 85:
Malcolm Ives. 25.7.1940.
JS (Scott) Harbison. 5.11.1940.
Fergus Munro. 2.5.1941.
Greg Russell. 20.5.41.
NB. The following are thought to be 85+ but exact birthdays have not yet been found.
Graham Ireland
Jock Murray
Peter Lovell