| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ken Thornett | |
| Date of birth | 1937 | |
| Nickname(s) | The Mayor of Parramatta | |
| Relatives | John Thornett (brother) Dick Thornett (brother) |
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| Club information | ||
| Position(s) | Fullback | |
| Current club | Retired | |
| Senior clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (points) |
| 1962-71 1961-62 |
Parramatta Eels Leeds |
129 (63) ? |
| Representative teams | ||
| 1963-67 1963-64 |
New South Wales Australia |
3 (0) 12 (18) |
| Professional clubs coached | ||
| 1965-66 | Parramatta Eels | |
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* Professional club appearances and points |
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Ken Thornett is a former Australian rugby league player. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. History See also History of rugby league The grass roots of rugby league can be traced to early football history, through the playing of ball games He represented for the Kangaroos in 12 Tests in 1963-64 and on the 1963-64 Kangaroo Tour. Kangaroo Tour is the name given to Australian Rugby league tours of Great Britain and France
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Club and representative career
He was a Fullback with the Parramatta Eels in 1960s. A typical Rugby league team consists of thirteen players on the field plus four substitutes on the bench The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional Rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. He played 136 games for the club. Thornett was the leading Australian Rugby League fullback in the early sixties after Barnes and before Johns & Langlands. William Keith Barnes (born 1934 in Port Talbot, Wales) is a Welsh-born Australian immigrant former Rugby league player and coach Les Johns (born 1942 in Australia) was a Rugby league player for the Canterbury Berries, New South Wales and for the Australian Graeme 'Changa' Langlands is an Australian former Rugby league footballer and coach
Ken played in all six Tests of the 1963 Kangaroo Tour and in ten minor tour games. He made a further six Test appearances and by the end of his representative career in 1964 had played three Tests each against Great Britain and New Zealand, five against France and one against South Africa.
Sporting family
Ken and both of his brothers were all exemplary sportsmen. John Thornett was a Wallaby captain who played 37 Rugby Union Tests for Australia over a distinguished 13 year career from 1955. John Thornett (born 30 March 1935) is a former Australian Rugby union player having played 37 Tests for Australia between 1955 and Dick Thornett represented Australia at water polo, rugby league and rugby union. Dick Thornett is a former Australian Rugby league and Rugby union player - a dual code international representative Much of Dick and Ken's club football career was played together at Parramatta and they have the very rare distinction of having played three international rugby league Tests together on the 1963-64 Kangaroo Tour.
Accolades
In 1965 he was named NSW Player of the Year.
In February 2008, Thornett was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908-2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. In late 2007 the Australian Rugby League and National Rugby League commissioned 130 experts to select the 100 best rugby league players in the game's 100-year history in The Australian Rugby League (ARL is the governing body for the Sport of Rugby league in Australia [1][2]
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Footnotes
- ^ Peter Cassidy. "Controversy reigns as NRL releases top 100 players", Macquarie National News, 2008-02-23. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable Retrieved on 2008-02-23. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable
- ^ Centenary of Rugby League - The Players. NRL & ARL (2008-02-23). The Australian Rugby League (ARL is the governing body for the Sport of Rugby league in Australia 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable Retrieved on 2008-02-23. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable
| Sporting positions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Ken Kearney 1962-1964 |
Coach Parramatta Eels 1965-1966 |
Succeeded by Brian Hambly 1967 |
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