Reg Date

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Reg Date
Personal information
Full name Reginald Date
Date of birth (1921-07-26)26 July 1921
Place of birth Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia
Date of death 11 August 1995(1995-08-11) (aged 74)
Position Forward
Youth career
1930–1938 Plattsburg Public School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1938–1944 Wallsend 107 (166)
1945–1947 Canterbury Bankstown 39 (94)
1948–1954 Wallsend 93 (154[1])
Total 239 (414)
International career
1947 Australia 5 (8)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Reg Date (26 July 1921 – 11 August 1995) was an Australian soccer player who plied his trade after the Second World War. Date played for Wallsend Football Club and Canterbury-Bankstown. He represented Australia in five full international matches, captaining three times.[2][3][4]

Early life

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Date was born in Wallsend to Nancy and John "Mick" Date. His father was a fisherman at Lemon Tree Passage, where Date lived until the age of eight, when he moved to live in Wallsend with his mother's parents.[5]

Club career

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Date went to Plattsburg Public School in Wallsend, being a prolific goalscorer in their youth matches; he even claimed that he had scored a total of 1,616 career goals including junior football, although there is no evidence of such.[6] He made his debut for Wallsend Football Club in 1938 as a 16-year-old. He joined Canterbury-Bankstown in the state league in 1945. Date continued to live in Wallsend, commuting by train every weekend. In 1948, Date returned to Wallsend.[7] In time he was coached by the great Alf Quill, Wallsend Football Club's legendary goalscorer of the inter-war years.[8][9]

At his peak Date was an incredible goal scorer for Canterbury-Bankstown in the New South Wales Division 1, earning state and international recognition and captaining Australia in three matches against South Africa in a five-game home series against that nation; Date scoring eight goals.[10] He scored another three in two warm-up matches for the 'B' side prior to the official tour.

There was consternation when Date, for whatever reason, was not selected on international tours of New Zealand in 1948 and, most surprisingly, South Africa in 1950, but he did score in a representative match on the national side's return from the Cape for New South Wales against Australia on 2 September 1950 and did appear for the 'B' side in the famous 17–0 defeat to an English XI on 30 June 1951.[11][12]

Legacy

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In 2000, he was selected as a member of the Australian team of the century by respondents to an RSSSF vote, beating Frank Farina into second place for the number 10 shirt.[13]

Later life

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Date worked for years running hotels in the Newcastle area. He became the publican of the Queens Arms Hotel in Maitland in 1947, moving to the Ocean View Hotel in Dudley the next year. In 1954, Date took over the Albion Hotel in Wickham, where he worked until his retirement in 1980.[4][14] In a 2012 interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, his Australia teammate Joe Marston rated Date as the best Australian player that he had played with or against, adding, "Great player. Great bloke. But boy he could drink. The selectors, they never liked Reggie. He was too much of a larrikin. They couldn't handle him."[15]

Career statistics

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Club

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Appearances and goals by club, season, and competition. Only official games are included in this table.[16]
Club Season League State Premiership State League Cup Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Wallsend 1938 4 8 2 3 3 5 1 1 10 17
1939 21 19 1 0 0 0 1 2 23 21
1940 21 21 1 3 1 0 1 0 24 24
1941 17 15 2 1 2 1 1 1 22 18
1942 14 39 3 3 4 1 3 6 24 49
1943 14 23 4 11 1 4 2 4 21 42
1944 22 41 1 3 4 7 4 10 31 61
Canterbury Bankstown 1945 14 32 3 3 2 6 1 2 20 43
1946 13 29 2 5 5 13 5 10 25 57
1947 15 33 0 0 7 16 1 0 23 49
Wallsend 1948 9 13 0 0 3 8 1 1 13 22
1949 18 29 2 3 2 4 3 5 25 41
1950 18 24 2 4 3 0 3 0 26 28
1951 22 38 2 6 2 4 3 6 30 54
1952 8 24 6 5 4 7 1 3 19 41
1953 11 16 5 3 1 2 4 5 21 26
1954 8 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 10
Total 231 414 36 53 39 78 34 56 340 601

International

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National team Year Competitive Friendly Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Australia 1947 0 0 5 8 5 8
List of international goals scored by Reg Date
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.
1 10 May 1947 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia File:Flag of South Africa (1928–1982).svg South Africa 1–0 1–2 Friendly [17]
2 24 May 1947 Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane, Australia File:Flag of South Africa (1928–1982).svg South Africa 1–0 2–4 Friendly [18]
3 2–3
4 31 May 1947 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia File:Flag of South Africa (1928–1982).svg South Africa 2–1 3–3 Friendly [19]
5 3–1
6 31 May 1947 Newcastle Sports Ground, Newcastle, Australia File:Flag of South Africa (1928–1982).svg South Africa 1–0 5–1 Friendly [20]
7 4–1
8 5–1

Honours

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Wallsend

  • NSW State League: 1938, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1951, 1953[21]
  • NSW State League Cup: 1942, 1944, 1950, 1952
  • NSW Robinson Cup: 1938, 1939
  • NSW Daniels Cup: 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1949, 1950, 1951,

Canterbury

  • NSW State League: 1945
  • NSW State League Cup: 1946
  • NSW Sydney Cup: 1946

Individual

  • NSW Top Scorer: 1942, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1953[22][23]

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