Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Nickname(s)
- Tiger
- Born
- Thursday, 22nd November, 1894
- Died
- Tuesday, 11th September, 1945 (Aged 50 years and 293 days)
- Place Of Birth
- Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- Interstate Series
- 1921
- City Cup
- 1921
Biography
Former Newtown centre 'Tiger' Gillespie played for NSW in 1921 before touring NZ with the state side in 1922.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Playing Career Statistics
All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.
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| Tour Matches | Orange | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Australasia II | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Representative Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate Series | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Club Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | - | 90 | 18 | - | - | 54 | 41 | 42 | 7 | 45.56% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Finals | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| City Cup | 1 | 33 | 12 | - | - | 36 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 72.73% | List | ||||
| Overall | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||||
| First Class | 115 | 29 | - | - | 87 | 68 | 54 | 7 | 59.13% | List | |||||
Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| NSW Seconds | 1919 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Firsts | 1921-22 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Orange | 1922, 1924 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Metropolis | 1922 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Australasia II | 1922 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1919-1924 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.00% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1916 | 12 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 25.00% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1917 | 11 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 45.45% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1918 | 12 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 8.33% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1919 | 10 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1920 | 9 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.56% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1921 | 8 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1922 | 15 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 60.00% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1923 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.23% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Newtown | 1916-19 | 45 | 10 | - | - | 30 | 14 | 25 | 6 | 31.11% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | 1920-23 | 45 | 8 | - | - | 24 | 27 | 17 | 1 | 60.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1916-1923 | 90 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 41 | 42 | 7 | 45.56% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Andrew Ferguson, Rugby League Tables, Tony McCarron, Greg Fiveash, Shawn Dollin, Alan Katzmann, Max Turner
Your Say
23 May 2012 10:47pm
William (Tiger) Gillespie was my maternal Grandfather. He died at age 49 before I was born. Two of his children are alive in 2012 :- Melva and Bette, my mother and aunt. His Grandchildren live in NSW and SE QLD causing mixed emotions over "State-of-Origin" games.
Rabbitoh's, eh? Thanks Russell.
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