Alexander Alan Righton (1905–1982) was an Australian
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...
footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s.
Background
Righton was born in
Redfern, New South Wales
Redfern is an Southern Sydney, inner southern suburb of Sydney located south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Local government in Australia, local government area of the City of Sydney. Strawberry Hills is a locality ...
on 18 February 1905.
Playing career
Righton went on to become one of
South Sydney Rabbitohs
The South Sydney District Rugby League Football Club, also known as the South Sydney Rabbitohs, is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra, New South Wales, Maroubra that competes in the Nat ...
greatest fullbacks, and a premiership winner. Righton was a South's junior, and made his first grade debut in 1925.
He went on to play seven seasons with
South Sydney between 1925 and 1931, and played in three premiership winning teams in 1925, 1926 and 1928. He represented N.S.W. City Firsts in 1929 and played for
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...
on one occasion in 1927.
He later switched to
Newtown and played three seasons with them between 1933 and 1935 before retiring.
Righton died on 11 June 1982, aged 77.
[Sydney Morning Herald: Death Notice 12/6/1982]
References
1905 births
1982 deaths
Australian rugby league players
South Sydney Rabbitohs players
Newtown Jets players
New South Wales rugby league team players
Rugby league players from Sydney
City New South Wales rugby league team players
Rugby league fullbacks
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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