Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Phillip Regan
- Nickname(s)
- Wongo
- Born
- Sunday, 31st January, 1892
- Died
- Thursday, 22nd June, 1967 (Aged 75 years and 142 days)
- Place Of Birth
- Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- City Cup
- 1913
Biography
One of the first city-bred rugby league players to go to a NSW country area and develop the code, 'Wongo' Regan spent time with Cootamundra and helped the game flourish in the Riverina area.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Playing Career Statistics
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| Tour Matches | Cootamundra | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Representative Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country Carnival | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Club Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | - | 59 | 7 | 1 | - | 23 | 39 | 19 | 1 | 66.10% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Finals | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Maher Cup | - | 54 | 8 | 2 | - | 28 | 46 | 7 | 1 | 85.19% | List | ||||
| City Cup | 1 | 30 | 8 | 2 | - | 28 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 56.67% | List | ||||
| Overall | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||||
| First Class | 87 | 13 | 3 | - | 45 | 56 | 34 | 1 | 64.37% | List | |||||
Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Metropolis | 1919 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| AIF | 1919 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Southern Division | 1924-25 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1919-1925 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 66.67% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Glebe | NSWRFL 1911 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.00% | List | ||||
| Glebe | NSWRFL 1912 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Glebe | NSWRFL 1913 | 10 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Glebe | NSWRFL 1914 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | 42.86% | List | ||||
| Glebe | NSWRFL 1915 | 14 | 2 | 1 | - | 8 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.71% | List | ||||
| Glebe | NSWRFL 1917 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Glebe | NSWRFL 1919 | 8 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.00% | List | ||||
| Glebe | NSWRFL 1920 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Glebe | NSWRFL 1922 | 11 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.73% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Glebe | 1911-15, 1917, 1919-20, 1922 | 59 | 7 | 1 | - | 23 | 39 | 19 | 1 | 66.10% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Andrew Ferguson, Tony McCarron, Greg Fiveash, Rugby League Tables, Alan Katzmann, Shawn Dollin, Neil Pollock
Your Say
14/06/2016
just some further info; Phil Regan was actually selected to play in the Australian Team only to have the selection withdrawn on the basis of a rule at the time... Phil Regan had a criminal record - being Truancy (absent from school when he was 11yo) He went on to play in the NSWCRL for Cootamundra 1922-1927 and won the Mayers Cup as a player and a coach... Phil Regan was the first paid rugby league Coach in NSWRL history
16/06/2016
Just an extra note: while it is very hard to determine (quite deliberate in fact) Phil Regan is believed to have been the first paid coach in the history of the game.
After his return from WWI he was enticed back onto the playing field for Glebe, despite still recovering from horrid battle wounds. He was a player & coach and as such received two payments hidden under differing names from 1917-1921 before being employed as a "kept" player/coach of Cootamundra (Div 9) through till 1927
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