Cecil Charles “Ted” Anderton

HERITAGE No: 263

BIRTH: 24 August 1908

Botany, NSW

DEATH: 19 March 1975 Katoomba, NSW

DEATH: 19 March 1975

Katoomba, NSW

OCCUPATION: Terra Cotta Presser, 1930

RESIDENCE: Railway St, Blacktown, NSW, 1930; Star Hotel, Cootamundra, NSW, 1932, 1933; Trongate St, Granville, NSW, 1935

GAME HISTORY

Wentworthville RL B Grade 1925
Western Districts President’s Cup 1925
Blacktown RL A Grade 1928
Wentworthville RL A Grade 1929
Wests RL First Grade 1928, 1931, 1933
Wests RL 2nd Grade 1930, 1931, 1933
Wests RL 3rd Grade 1935
Cootamundra RL 1932
Port Kembla RL 1933
East Tamworth RL Player/Coach 1934
Tamworth District RL 1934, 1935, 1936
Group 4 RL 1934, 1935, 1936
Northern Division RL 1934
Tamworth RL 1935, 1936
West Tamworth RL 1938
AIF RL (Palestine) Coach 1940

Cecil

Cecil “Ted” Anderton played junior rugby league with the Wentworthville Club in Sydney’s outer west.

He played for the Western Districts President’s Cup team in 1925, but didn’t make his First Grade debut until 1928. He was plucked from the juniors to play fullback after it was announced that Frank McMillan was retiring. Wests tried five different fullbacks in the last seven rounds of 1928, in its bid to find a replacement for McMillan.

It was Cec Anderton’s one and only game in Grade football until 1930. Cec returned to the junior competition for the remainder of 1928 and also the 1929 season. In 1930 his time had come and he was once again graded with Wests.