Hec Farrell was an Australian professional

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 1950s. He played for Western Suburbs as a hooker.

Playing career

Farrell came from

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and made his debut for Western Suburbs in 1951. In 1952, Farrell was a member of the Western Suburbs side which claimed their fourth premiership defeating South Sydney 22–10 in the grand final. The match was remembered due to its controversy with claims the referee George Bishop had put a big wager on Wests winning the game. Souths claimed that they were denied two fair tries and Wests had scored one try off a blatant knock on. Farrell himself was sent off in the second half of the match. This would prove to be the last premiership Western Suburbs would win as a stand-alone entity before exiting the competition in 1999. Farrell played on with Wests until 1957 and then retired.

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1923 births 1988 deaths Australian rugby league players Rugby league hookers Rugby league players from Lismore, New South Wales Western Suburbs Magpies players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyleague-bio-1920s-stub