Coaching Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Francis James Farrington
- Born
- Thursday, 18th November, 1926
- Died
- Tuesday, 9th December, 2014 (Aged 88 years and 21 days)
- Place Of Birth
- St Peters, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
Newtown forward also had an extensive career in Country NSW and Queensland before rising to the position of club secretary in the 1970s. Farrington, who was also a professional light-heavyweight boxer, served in occupied Japan with the Army before being graded by Newtown in 1951. After winning a Reserve Grade premiership with the club he spent the 1952 season as captain-coach of Cowra. He returned to Newtown in 1953 but sought out captain-coach positions with Narranderra (1954) and Mackay (1955). Farrington again returned to Newtown in 1956 until a shoulder injury ended his career in 1959. He later oversaw the club's rebuilding program in the late 1970s, which culminated in the Jets' 1981 grand final appearance against Parramatta. Beleaguered by financial problems and with the club's junior base eroded by Sydney's urban change, Farrington was at the helm when the foundation club was cut by the NSWRL in 1983. To his credit, he remained the chief executive of the club when it achieved a second life in Sydney's Metropolitan Cup competition in the early 1990s.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Coaching Career Statistics
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Your Say
25/10/2018
He was also the manger of the 1982 Australian tour
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