Andrew "ET" Ettingshausen (born 29 October 1965) is an Australian former professional
rugby league
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footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. He played his first grade Australian club football for the
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugby leag ...
, retiring at the end of the
2000 NRL season
The 2000 NRL season was the 93rd season of professional rugby league football in Australia and the third to be run by the National Rugby League. Fourteen teams competed from February till August for the NRL Premiership, culminating in the 2000 ...
having played 328 first grade games for the club, the NSWRL/ARL/SL/NRL record for most games at a single club. This record stood for ten years, before ultimately being broken by
Darren Lockyer
Darren James Lockyer (born 24 March 1977) is an Australian television commentator and former professional rugby league footballer. Lockyer was an Australian international and Queensland State representative captain, who played his entire profes ...
for the Broncos in 2010.
"ET" as he was known, represented both
New South Wales
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, and the
Australian Kangaroos
The Australian National Rugby League Team, the Kangaroos, have represented Australia in senior men's rugby league football competition since the establishment of the 'Northern Union game' in Australia in 1908. Administered by the Australian ...
, and was twice a
Kangaroo tourist. After his retirement from league in 2000, Ettingshausen went on to host and produce his own fishing television show titled ''Escape with ET''.
Ettingshausen was originally signed to the Cronulla side as a teenager before making his début at the age of 17, while still at school. He quickly cemented a place in the Sharks first grade side and ultimately played 328 first grade games with the club over eighteen seasons.
Ettingshausen was inducted into the NRL Hall of Fame in 2008
Early life
Ettingshausen was born in the southern
Sydney suburb of Sutherland, and began his rugby league career playing for his local club side at the age of six. He was subsequently scouted and signed as a junior to the
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugby leag ...
.
While attending Cronulla De La Salle, Ettingshausen played for the
Australian Schoolboys team in 1982 and 1983.
Club career
1983
Cronulla coach
Terry Fearnley
Terence Colin Fearnley (21 July 1933 – 4 March 2015) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach.
Playing career
Fearnley was a long serving member of the NSWRFL's Eastern Suburbs team, playing 144 matches for them at a bleak period ...
gave Andrew Ettingshausen his first grade début for the Sharks in round 5 of the
1983 season against the
Newtown Jets
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at . His début was somewhat of an uneventful affair, although he did cross for a try in the second half.
1985–91
In the
1985 season, he scored a total of ten tries playing mostly from fullback or in the s in his third season and finally cemented his spot in the Sharks squad.
Ettingshausen also made an appearance in the 1988 Australian television movie ''
The First Kangaroos
''The First Kangaroos'' is a 1988 British–Australian made for TV sports film directed by Frank Cvitanovich and starring Dennis Waterman, Chris Haywood and Dominic Sweeney. It depicts the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, the first-eve ...
'', which depicted the
1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain
The 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain was the first ever such tour for the newly-formed Australia national rugby league team (or 'The Kangaroos'). The tour was to England and Wales and coincided with the first Wallabies Rugby Union tour of ...
. Also having a small role in the movie was his NSW teammate and captain
Wayne Pearce
Wayne John Pearce OAM (born 29 March 1960 in Balmain, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. An athletic for the Balmain Tigers, he was known as Junior. Pearce represented New South Wales in t ...
.
In 1987, Ettingshausen made his début for
New South Wales
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on the wing in Game 1 of the
1987 State of Origin series at
Lang Park in
Brisbane
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.
The
1988 season was the high point of his early years when he was moved off the wing and into the centres where he would remain for the majority of his career. He made the first of eight appearances for
City Origin
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in 1988, playing on the wing in City's 20-18 win over
Country Origin
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in the annual
City vs Country Origin
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match. He then went on to be one of the better players for NSW in the
1988 Origin series which
Queensland
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won 3-0. Off the back of these performances Ettingshausen was selected for his first test match for
Australia.
After a successful
1990 NSWRL season
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in which he played fullback in all three
Origin games for NSW which saw The Blues win the series for the first time since
1986
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, and after scoring 13 tries in 20 games for Cronulla, he was selected for the
17th Kangaroo Tour of Great Britain and France where he played in all five tests on tour against Great Britain and
France
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. Ettingshausen came of age on tour, playing in 12 games and finishing as the highest try scorer for the 28-man touring squad with 15 , including hat-tricks against powerhouse English sides
St. Helens and
Wigan
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in the opening two games. It was these efforts which cemented his place in the first test against Great Britain at
Wembley Stadium
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where the home side pulled off a shock 19-12 win, their first test win on home soil against Australia since the second test of the
1978 Kangaroo tour
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. Despite the loss, Australia bounced back and secured
The Ashes
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with wins at
Old Trafford and
Elland Road with Ettingshausen scoring his only try of the test series in the 14-0 win in the deciding test.
1992–2000
Despite a slow start to the
1992 NSWRL season
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playing fullback for the Sharks, Ettingshausen was picked at fullback for NSW for all three games of the
1992 Origin series which saw NSW win 2-1. He was then picked at fullback for all three tests against Great Britain in
The Ashes
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.
He was selected on the wing for NSW for games 1 and 2 of the
1993 Origin series, and at centre for game 3. He missed Australian selection for the 1st test of their two test tour of New Zealand & was selected on the reserves bench for the 2nd test played in
Palmerston North
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. For the 3rd test back in
Brisbane
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he was again a reserve.
1994
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saw Ettingshausen back at his best, seeing him score a total of 18 tries from just 18 games and leading the Sharks by example after also being awarded the captaincy of the Sharks. Five of his 18 tries came in one match against
South Sydney at The Sharks home ground,
Endeavour Field
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in Round 22 as the Sharks humiliated the Rabbitohs 42-0. With his 3rd try against
Manly-Warringah in Round 5 (his 6th of the season), Ettingshausen brought up his 100th try for the Cronulla club. He would finish the season with 112 tries for Cronulla. At the end of the 1994 season, he was selected for his second
Kangaroo tour. In almost a carbon copy of his 1990 Tour, Ettingshausen was the team's top try scorer with 15 from 11 games played which included all three tests playing on the wing against Great Britain and the single test against France. Ettingshausen remains the only player to be the leading try scorer on consecutive
Kangaroo tours.
Ettingshausen captained Cronulla-Sutherland to the
1997 Super League Grand Final, but they lost 26-8 to the
Brisbane Broncos
The Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Football Club Ltd., commonly referred to as the Broncos, is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in April 1987, the Broncos play in Australia's elite c ...
in front of 58,912 fans at the
ANZ Stadium
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in
Brisbane
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(the Broncos home ground) in what was the first night Grand Final played in Australia and the first not to be played in Sydney. He then toured with the
Australian SL team to Great Britain and France at the end of 1997, playing all four tests (
three against Great Britain, and one against France) in the centres. Other than the 1992 Ashes series, this was the only time ET failed to score a try for Australia in a full test series.
In the
1999 NRL season
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, Ettingshausen played 26 games for Cronulla as the club won the minor premiership after enjoying one of their best ever seasons. Ettingshausen played in the club's preliminary final defeat against St George at
Stadium Australia
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.
Ettingshausen played on for Cronulla in the
2000 NRL season
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which would be his last. His final game as a player came in round 23 2000 against the
Auckland Warriors
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which Cronulla won 22-12 at
Shark Park
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.
He ended up playing a total of 328 first grade games, all for Cronulla which at the time became the record for the most games for a single club, and 6th highest overall. His record was broken when
Darren Lockyer
Darren James Lockyer (born 24 March 1977) is an Australian television commentator and former professional rugby league footballer. Lockyer was an Australian international and Queensland State representative captain, who played his entire profes ...
played his 329th game for the Brisbane Broncos in Round 25 of the
2009 NRL season. As of the
2013 NRL season
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, ET sits 6th on the NSWRL/ARL/SL/NRL all-time games list behind Lockyer (355),
Terry Lamb
Terence John Lamb (born 15 September 1961), also nicknamed "Baa", is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He played 350 games, with the Western Suburbs (1980–1983) and Canterbury (1984–1996).
Lamb was known for his su ...
(349),
Steve Menzies
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(349),
Brad Fittler
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(336) and
Cliff Lyons
Cliff Lyons (born 19 October 1961) is an indigenous Australian former international rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A Clive Churchill Medalllist and two-time Dally M Medallist, he made 309 first-grade appearances wit ...
(332).
Controversy
During the
1991 NSWRL season
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Ettingshausen filed a defamation lawsuit against the Australian ''HQ'' magazine and photographer Brett Cochrane. Cochrane had taken a photo of Ettingshausen while he was in the shower on the 1990
Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. The magazine ran the shot in 1991 without his permission. Ettingshausen successfully sued the magazine for originally $350,000 which was later reduced to $100,000 after appeal.
In 2012, Ettingshausen admitted to having a 12-month affair with the wife of close friend
Paul Mellor. He also revealed he had been suffering from depression.
Representative career
City Origin
Ettingshausen first played in the annual
City vs Country Origin
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game in 1988. He would go on to make eight appearances for the team until his final selection in 1996. He scored 4 tries in the 8 games, and in a pointer to higher representative honors, his first game was on the wing.
New South Wales
Ettingshausen made his
New South Wales
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début in the
1987 State of Origin series, and over the next nine years went on to bring his tally of State of Origin games to twenty-seven. He made his début on the wing but went on to cover both the positions of fullback and centre, scoring a total of seven Origin tries, plus another three in his three games for NSW during the
1997 Super League Tri-series where he played all games, including the series Final against
Queensland
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at the ANZ Stadium in Brisbane, in the centres. The game was drawn 18-18 at the end of regular time (80 minutes) and 22-22 after a further 20 minutes of extra time, and only ended only after NSW halfback
Noel Goldthorpe kicked a field goal in the 104th minute. This made it the longest-ever game of first class rugby league.
Australia
Ettingshausen played in 29 Test matches for Australia (including 4 with the Super League Australian team) between 1988 and 1997. He made his test début in the green and gold on 11 June 1988 against the
touring Great Britain Lions
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For most of the 20th century, the Great Britain team toured overseas, ...
, playing on the wing at the
Sydney Football Stadium. In the 100th test between the two teams, Australia defeated the tourists 17-6 He would score his first test try in the second game of the series at Lang Park as the Aussies retained
The Ashes
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with a 34-14 victory.
Ettingshausen was selected to both the 1990 and 1994 Kangaroo Tours, playing in all 9 tests played over the two tours, and holds the distinction of being the only ever
Kangaroo Tourist to be the leading try scorer on consecutive tours, crossing for 15 tries on each tour. He was also selected to the
1991 tour of Papua New Guinea.
Ettingshausen's 29th and final test for Australia came during the
1997 Super League Test series at the
Elland Road stadium in
Leeds
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, England where Australia defeated Great Britain 37-20.
Despite being one of the first choice backs selected for representative sides during his career, Ettingshausen never played in a
Rugby League World Cup Final
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for the Kangaroos. He missed selection when Australia defeated New Zealand 25-12 in
1988
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at
Eden Park, was unavailable through injury when Australia defeated Great Britain 10-6 in
1992 at
Wembley
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, and wasn't selected for the
1995 Rugby League World Cup which was played at the height of the
Super League war
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Super ...
, and the
Australian Rugby League
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controversially did not select any Super League aligned players (though Australia would still go on to win the
Final
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at Wembley 16-8 over hosts
England
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).
In total, Ettingshausen played 29 tests for Australia (5 at fullback, 14 on the wing, 10 in the centres and 4 off the bench), plus another 15 tour matches. He scored 14 test tries and 25 in the tour games.
Career playing statistics
Ettingshausen's 165 tries is the fourth highest tally in Australian first grade rugby league, behind
Ken Irvine
Kenneth John Irvine (5 March 1940 – 22 December 1990),
also nicknamed "Mongo", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He holds the standing Australian record for the most tries in a ...
(212),
Steven Menzies (180) and
Billy Slater
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(172). His tally is also the second highest total for any player who played their entire career at a single club behind Slater who has played his entire career for the
Melbourne Storm
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.
Andrew Ettingshausen is one of ten players to have scored more than 150 tries in his NSWRL/ARL/SL/NRL career.
Point scoring summary
Matches played
Post Playing
After the
2005 Cronulla riots
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The riots were triggered by an event the ...
, Ettingshausen was selected along with fellow sports stars
Susie Maroney
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In 2019, Maroney competed in the sixth season of ''Australian Survivor''. She was eliminated on Day 7 and finished in 22nd place.
Swimming career
Maroney w ...
,
Nick Davis,
Mark Ella
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Ella made his debut tour wit ...
, and former Sharks teammate
Jason Stevens to head the $250,000 NSW government campaign to promote Sydney's beach suburbs as safe for everyone.
In February 2008, Ettingshausen was named in the list of Australia's
''100 Greatest Players'' (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the
NRL and
ARL
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to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.
In 1992, the Cronulla club extended their ground at
Endeavour Field
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, adding a new stand to the ground at a cost of 2.5 million dollars. The club originally calling the stand the 'Western Endeavour' grandstand but with the retirement of Andrew Ettingshausen in 2000 the club decided to name it the 'Andrew Ettingshausen' stand in his honour.
2003 saw the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks name the top ten Sharks legends of all-time as nominated by fans and picked by a panel of experts. Ettingshausen was named amongst the ten and was then further honoured by being picked as one of the three first immortals of the club along with
Gavin Miller
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and
Steve Rogers
Television career
With his retirement from rugby league, Ettingshausen launched his media career with his own television show on the
Nine Network in 1997 titled, ''
Escape with ET''. The show is essentially a fishing show hosted by Ettingshausen though it also focuses on many water sports (such as
white water rafting
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and
wakeboarding
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), off-road
4WD
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driving and other outdoors activities.
The show has been currently running for eight years to date and in 2005 moved to rival network
Network Ten. It usually had a celebrity appearing on each episode including former professional
rugby league
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footballers such as
David Peachey
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and
Ryan Girdler along with others including
Paul Kelly,
John Barnes
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and
Layne Beachley
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Surfing career
At the age of 16 Beachley ...
.
In 2014, Ettingshausen won an
Asian Television Award
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for best sports presenter.
In 2015, Ettingshausen hosted the four part
Discovery Channel series ''
Saltwater Heroes''.
In 2019, Ettingshausen competed in the
sixth season of ''
Australian Survivor''. He was eliminated on Day 14 and finished in 19th place.
References
Further reading
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External links
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Andrew Ettingshausen scoring statisticsEscape with ET, television show official website
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1965 births
Living people
Australia national rugby league team players
Australian fishers
Australian people of German descent
Australian rugby league players
Australian Survivor contestants
Australian television presenters
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks players
Leeds Rhinos players
New South Wales City Origin rugby league team players
New South Wales Rugby League State of Origin players
People educated at De La Salle College, Cronulla
People from the Sutherland Shire
Rugby league fullbacks
Rugby league players from Sydney
Rugby league wingers
Sportsmen from New South Wales