Alan Ridley (1910–1993) 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 1920s and 1930s. An
Australian international and
New South Wales interstate representative winger, he played club football for Sydney's
Western Suburbs, with whom he won the
1934 NSWRFL Premiership
The 1934 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the twenty-seventh season of Sydney’s top-grade rugby league club competition, Australia’s first. Eight teams from across the city contested the premiership during the season which ...
.
Playing career
He started his career playing for the
Acton Rovers of the Canberra competition. Whilst playing for the Queanbeyan "Blues", he was selected to go on the
1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain
The 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain was the fourth Kangaroo tour, and took the Australia national rugby league team all around England and also into Wales. The tour featured the ninth Ashes series which comprised four Test matches and wa ...
. He was the
1932 NSWRFL season
The 1932 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the twenty-fifth season of Sydney’s top-level rugby league competition, Australia’s first. During the season, which lasted from April until September, eight teams from across the c ...
's top try scorer with 18 tries. Ridley was selected to go on the
1933–34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain
The 1933–34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain was the fifth Kangaroo tour, and took the Australia national rugby league team around the north of England, to London and Paris. The tour also featured the 11th Ashes series which comprised three Test ...
He scored a record 6 tries in a match for the
Western Suburbs Magpies
The Western Suburbs Magpies (legal name: Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Ltd) are an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as they are commonly r ...
in 1934.
Post playing
Ridley moved to
Orange, New South Wales
Orange is a city in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the state capital, Sydney on a great circle at an altitude of . Orange had an estimated urban population of 40,493 Estimated resident population, 3 ...
at the end of his rugby league career and later became Mayor of the town. He died there in 1993. He was voted in the
Wests Tigers
The Wests Tigers are an Australian professional rugby league football team, based in the Inner West and South West Sydney. They have competed in the National Rugby League since being formed at the end of the 1999 NRL season as a joint-venture ...
Team of the Century and the
Western Suburbs Magpies
The Western Suburbs Magpies (legal name: Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Ltd) are an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as they are commonly r ...
Team of the Century.
References
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1910 births
1993 deaths
Australian rugby league players
Western Suburbs Magpies players
New South Wales rugby league team players
City New South Wales rugby league team players
Country New South Wales rugby league team players
Australia national rugby league team players
Rugby league players from New South Wales
Rugby league wingers