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'''Don W. Parish''' is an Australian former [[rugby league football]] player and coach. A goal-kicking fullback or three-quarter, he represented Australia and New South Wales, and played club football in the [[NSWRFL Premiership]] for [[Western Suburbs Magpies|Western Suburbs]].
'''Don W. Parish''' is an Australian former [[rugby league football]] player and coach. A goal-kicking fullback or three-quarter back, he represented Australia and New South Wales, and played club football in the [[NSWRFL Premiership]] for Sydney's [[Western Suburbs Magpies|Western Suburbs]] club.


==Playing career==
==Playing career==

Revision as of 08:20, 20 July 2012

Don W. Parish is an Australian former rugby league football player and coach. A goal-kicking fullback or three-quarter back, he represented Australia and New South Wales, and played club football in the NSWRFL Premiership for Sydney's Western Suburbs club.

Playing career

Hailing from the country New South Wales town of Dubbo, Parish played for the Macquarie club, becoming their first international when he was selected to go on the 1959/60 Kangaroo tour.[1][2][3]

In 1959 Parish scored a try and kicked three goals played in the New South Wales loss to Queensland that attracted 35,261 spectators, smashing Brisbane's previous record for an interstate match of 22,817.[4]

Parish started playing first grade in the Sydney premiership for the Western Suburbs club in the 1961 NSWRFL season and that year toured New Zealand with the Australian side. At the end of the season he played at fullback in Wests' loss to St. George in the grand final. The following season Parish was the League's top point-scorer. In 1963 he again played fullback for Wests in another grand final defeat at the hands of St George. Parish's last season playing for Wests was 1967.

Coaching career

Following his retirement from the playing field, Parish coached on the Southern New South Wales coast, taking the Illawarra Rugby League's Western Suburbs club to premierships in 1969 and 1970, as well as coaching the Illawarra group team to victory in the Country Divisional Championship.[5]

At the end of the 1971 NSWRFL season Parish was appointed to take over from Ron Watson as Western Suburbs' first grade coach. He coached the club until 1976, moving to Penrith in 1977. Half-way through the 1978 NSWRFL season, Len Stacker was appointed to replace Parish as Penrith head coach at the season's end.[6]

References

  1. ^ "'Special' weekend promised". Daily Liberal. 7 July 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
  2. ^ AAP (27 December 1959). "Injuries to Kangaroos change team". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Don Parish". Scanlens.
  4. ^ Goodman, Tom (28 May 1959). "Queensland beats N.S.W. in league by 17-15". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
  5. ^ Humphries, Rod (27 October 1971). "Wests' nod to Parish". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
  6. ^ Clarkson, Alan (26 July 1978). "Stacker to coach Penrith next year". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
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