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Henry Clay "Harry" Hamill (1879–1947) was a pioneer 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 1900s, and a co-founder of Rugby League in Australia. Born to parents William and Isabella Hamill at
Redfern, New South Wales Redfern is an inner-city suburb of Sydney located 3 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. Strawberry Hills is a locality on the border with Surry Hills. The are ...
in 1879, Harry Hamill was one of the original founders of the
Newtown Jets The Newtown Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west. They currently compete in the NSW Cup competition, having left the top grade after the 1983 NSWRFL season. The Jets' home ground ...
rugby league football club in 1908 and was the club's first captain. Originally a rugby union player with Newtown, Harry Hamill captained the Newtown in their first season before retiring. As a founding member of Newtown and pioneer of the game of rugby league in Sydney, Harry Hamill was awarded Life Membership of the NSWRFL in 1914. Harry Hamill was a journalist during his working life and created the ''Rugby League News'' in 1920. This publication became what is now the
Big League ''Big League'' was the official magazine of the National Rugby League. Its predecessor, ''The Rugby League News'', was first published in 1920; in 1974 it was rebranded as ''Big League''. In 2020, due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in ...
Magazine. Harry Hamill died on 19 December 1947, aged 68 late of
Woollahra, New South Wales Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woollahra is located 5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Wooll ...
and was survived by his eight children.Sydney Morning Herald: Death Notice. 20/12/1947


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1879 births 1947 deaths Newtown Jets players Australian rugby league players Australian rugby league administrators New South Wales rugby league team players Rugby league players from Sydney {{Australia-rugbyleague-bio-1870s-stub