Allan Jack 'Stumpy' Woods (1906–1968) was an Australian
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
footballer who played in the 1930s.
Career
Allan Woods was born in
Manly, New South Wales
Manly is a beach-side suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is north-east of the Sydney central business district and is currently one of the three administrative centres of the Local government in Australia ...
on 20 July 1906. He is remembered as a second row forward who played with the
St George Dragons
The St. George Dragons is an Australian rugby league football club from St George District in Sydney, New South Wales that played in the top level New South Wales competition and Australian Rugby League competitions from the 1921 until th ...
for three seasons between 1930 and 1933, which included his appearance in the
1933 Grand Final. He retired from rugby league after that match.
War service
Stumpy Woods was also a veteran of World War II, enlisting in 1941 and joining the 28 Australian Works Company, and attained the rank of Sergeant.
Allan 'Stumpy' Woods died on 4 April 1968, aged 61.
[Sydney Morning Herald: Death Notice 06/04/1968]
References
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St. George Dragons players
Australian rugby league players
Australian military personnel of World War II
1906 births
1968 deaths
People from Manly, New South Wales
Rugby league second-rows
Rugby league players from Sydney