Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Wally Joseph Prigg
- Born
- Saturday, 17th October, 1908
- Died
- Monday, 8th September, 1980 (Aged 71 years and 326 days)
Awards & Accolades
Known Family Links
- Uncle
- Fred Woolley
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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Competitions | ||||||||||||||
Competition | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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Country Carnival | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 66.67% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | Newcastle Firsts (AU) | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
City vs Country Firsts | 12 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.67% | List | ||||
Interstate Matches | 34 | 13 | - | - | 39 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 67.65% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | Australia | 85 | 34 | - | - | 102 | 57 | 28 | 0 | 67.06% | List | |||
Test Series | 19 | 4 | - | - | 6 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 42.11% | List | ||||
The Ashes | 12 | 2 | - | - | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.00% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
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Test Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Australia | 1929-30, 1932-38 | 23 | 7 | - | - | 21 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 47.83% | List | |||
International Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Australia | 1929-1937 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
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Australia - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Newcastle (AU) | 1927-30, 1934-37 | 12 | 3 | 1 | - | 11 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.33% | List | |||
NSW Firsts | 1929-39 | 49 | 20 | 1 | - | 62 | 37 | 9 | 3 | 75.51% | List | |||
NSW Country Firsts | 1929-39 | 12 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.67% | List | |||
Kangaroos | 1930 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
NSW Ctry. Possibles | 1931-32 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | |||
Combined Country | 1932 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
NSW Ctry. Probables | 1933 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Northern Division | 1934 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
Northern NSW | 1934 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Overall | 1927-1939 | 81 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 103 | 51 | 27 | 3 | 62.96% | List |
Contributions:
Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Greg Fiveash, Bill Bates
Your Say
17/07/2016
He should be an immortal, as he was the first Australian forward to make 3 kangaroo tours of England and France. He played all his senior football in Newcastle and was named in the NSW country team of the century. From a proud Novacastrian
24/04/2019
Wall Prigg is my grandfather.
To add what you’ve written already...
He was known as ‘a gentleman of rugby league’ .
He was the very first Australian to score a try on French soil.
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