Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- William James Schultz
- Nickname(s)
- Changa
- Born
- Tuesday, 20th October, 1891
- Died
- Tuesday, 25th February, 1975 (Aged 83 years and 128 days)
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- The Ashes
- 1920
- Test Series
- New Zealand vs Australia 1919
- Interstate Series
- 1919, 1920
- NSWRFL Premiership (NRL)
- 1915, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1924
- City Cup
- 1917, 1923
Known Family Links
- Nephew
- Fred Schultz
Biography
Balmain forward, a local junior who played Australian Rules at the local Christian Brothers with another budding champion, Charles ‘Chook’ Fraser, won six premiership titles with the club during his career (1915-17, 1919-20 & 1924). Schultz’s family was of German origin but he earned the nickname ‘Chang’ at school because he carried a picture postcard of General Chang, a Manchurian warlord and hero of the Russo-Japanese war (1902-04). Graded by the Balmain club in 1912, the sturdy prop played in four winning finals matches with the Tigers (1916, 1919-20 and 1924) and continued his personal and professional association with ‘Chook’ Fraser at club, state and international level. Schultz first represented NSW in 1919 and made his Test debut on the historic Australian tour of NZ that year. He appeared in all three Tests in Australia's Ashes winning series in 1920 before touring with the 1921-22 ‘Australasian’ Kangaroos. In England, ‘Changa’ Shultz played in two Tests against England and 22 other matches on the tour. His final premiership match for the club was the 3-0 win over Souths in the 1924 final.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Playing Career Statistics
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Competitions | |||||||||||||||
| Competition | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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| The Ashes | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.00% | List | ||||
| Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 1 | 0 | 85.71% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Australia | - | 32 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 25 | 7 | 0 | 78.13% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Sydney Firsts | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Metropolis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Test Series | 2 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | 0 | 71.43% | List | ||||
| Interstate Series | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.00% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | 6 | 142 | 15 | - | - | 45 | 98 | 32 | 12 | 69.01% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Finals | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| City Cup | 2 | 31 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 51.61% | List | ||||
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Test Matches - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Australia | 1919-22 | 9 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.67% | List | ||||
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Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Metropolis | 1914-15, 1922-23 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 0 | 80.00% | List | ||||
| Rest of NSW Firsts | 1917 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Firsts | 1919-21, 1923 | 14 | - | - | - | - | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.57% | List | ||||
| Sydney Firsts | 1920 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Kangaroos | 1922 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1914-1923 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 77.27% | List | ||||
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NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1913 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1914 | 14 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 42.86% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1915 | 14 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 85.71% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1916 | 15 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 80.00% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1917 | 14 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 92.86% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1918 | 14 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 57.14% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1919 | 11 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 81.82% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1920 | 12 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 83.33% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1921 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.50% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1922 | 14 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 6 | 1 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1923 | 14 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 57.14% | List | ||||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1924 | 9 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 77.78% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Balmain | 1913-24 | 142 | 15 | - | - | 45 | 98 | 32 | 12 | 69.01% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Greg Fiveash, Max Turner, Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Rugby League Tables, Alan Katzmann, Tony McCarron, Bill Bates
Your Say
22/01/2017
His nickname was chang and not changa. Search Trove - say his testimonial in 1925.
18/08/2017
His grandparents were an Irish famine orphan called McNamara and an Adolph Schultz - a seaman from Altona near Hamburg in what is now Germany. His grandad jumped ship in Sydney and while living until 1923 - was never legal says family legend.
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