page_title: Arthur Halloway
section_title: Coaching career
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur Halloway / Coaching career
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian Rugby League team on tour 1908 Front eight L to R:Jim Abercrombie; Dinny Lutge; Arthur Halloway; x; Sid Deane; Dally Messenger; Sandy Pearce (striped collar); Robert Graves (far right). Middle five L to R: x; Albert Rosenfeld (directly under lamp); Frank Cheadle; Bill Hardcastle (blurred, long coat); Arthur Anlezark (bowler hat). Back eight L to R: x;x; Jim Devereux; Lou Jones; John Fihelly (bowler hat); J J Giltinan (blurred, moustached); x; Bill Heidke.
context_page_description: Arthur 'Pony' Halloway, was a pioneering Australian rugby league footballer and coach. Born in Sydney, New South Wales he played for the Glebe Dirty Reds, Balmain Tigers and Eastern Suburbs, in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership. He played for New South Wales in the very first rugby match run by the newly created 'New South Wales Rugby Football League' which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union.
  He was a Half-back for the Australian national team. He played in ten Tests between 1908 and 1919, as captain on three occasions in 1919. Halloway was nicknamed 'Pony', but despite his small stature he was recognised as one of the fiercest competitors to play the game and one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century
  Halloway holds the record for the most premierships won as a coach in Australian rugby league history with 8 premierships. Halloway also holds the record for the longest undefeated streak as a coach in Australian rugby league history with 35 games undefeated.
context_section_description: After retirement as a player he coached in the country league at Parkes, then Lismore and also the Newtown club for a season in 1923. He returned to Sydney in the 1930s and won three premierships as coach of the Roosters from 1935 to 1937. He coached Norths from 1940 to 1941; Canterbury in 1948 and won another premiership coaching Easts in 1945.
  An article on Arthur Halloway that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 14 August 1945 – shortly before he brought up his 11th premiership as a player and/or coach.
  Arthur ("Pony") Halloway, Eastern Suburbs coach, has a double chance this season of chalking up his eleventh Rugby League premiership.
  As a player and coach Halloway has been trying on and off  for 38 years to win premierships. It will not be his fault if East has to use its second chance in a grand final this season. Halloway is a League pioneer, not of 1908, but of 1907 when he played against Baskerville’s  New Zealand team in the first match under League rules in Australia.
  The 1908-9 Kangaroos are usually regarded as the League’s pioneers and as Halloway was one of them he has a second claim to the distinction. 
  He made his second tour of England in 1911–12, and in the following three seasons helped Eastern Suburbs win two premierships
  From 1915 to 1920 Halloway played for Balmain and shared in five more premierships
  In 1919, l1 years after his first tour with the Kangaroos, Halloway was captain of an Australian  side to New Zealand.
  He has also represented New South Wales against Queensland.
  In 1921–22 when he played in Queensland Halloway represented against his home state.
  His most spectacular successes as a coach were in 1935-36-37 with East' remarkable club sides. Easts' won the premierships in those seasons, bringing Halloway's total to 10. 
  Halloway's long association with League’s successes and failures has case-hardened his emotions.
  His perfect equanimity, whatever the result is a valuable antidote to the chagrin by self-complacency of players or officials
  Halloway never harps on fault or overpraises cleverness. He has a nice encouraging way with both..The player who dropped passes gets more handling practice without recrimination: the clever one is brought into moves to emphasis team work.
  Halloway's qreatest admirers are his players. They praise his astutenness, are encouraged by his diligence and like his qood humour.
  The hardest man to draw into conversation about Halloway is Halloway. He loosens up once a year at the Kangaroos reunion but only to tell of the exploits or amusing experiecess of others
  
  Halloway is typical of the great old timers. There is no first person pronoun in their vocabularies.
  — Sydney Morning Herald
caption: Halloway front mid-left (long coat) with the 1908 Kangaroos
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