Ken Thornett
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Personal information
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| Nickname | The Mayor of Parramatta | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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27 November 1937 Waverley, New South Wales |
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| Died | 16 August 2016 (aged 78) Sydney, New South Wales |
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Playing information
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| Position | Fullback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Rugby League Project, Yesterday's Hero
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Ken Thornett (27 November 1937 – 16 August 2016) was an Australian rugby league fullback. He represented the Kangaroos in twelve Tests during 1963 and 1964 and on the off-season Kangaroo Tour.
Thornett began his career playing first grade rugby union with Randwick, and was the youngest player ever to be selected to play in a first grade union side. Switching to rugby league, Thornett played with Leeds for several seasons and played Fullback in Leeds’ 9–19 defeat by Wakefield Trinity in the 1961 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1961–62 season at Odsal Stadium, Bradford on Saturday 11 November 1961.
Ken Thornett was initially expected to sign with South Sydney upon a proposed return to Australia for the 1962 season; however negotiations with the Rabbitohs fell through and he signed with Parramatta. Thornett played only seven games in that first season, but the resultant six wins and a draw from those games lifted Parramatta to their first-ever finals position, following eight “wooden spoons” and a paltry 20 percent win record in all matches of the previous ten seasons 1952 to 1961. Thornett played regularly with Parramatta from 1963 and totalled 136 games for the club.
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