Ted Glossop
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FullnameEdwin Charles Glossop
Born1934
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died31 December 1998 (aged 64)
Caringbah, New South Wales, Australia
Caringbah, New South Wales, Australia
PositionHalfback
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| Full name | Edwin Charles Glossop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1934 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 31 December 1998 (aged 64) Caringbah, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ted Glossop (1934 – 31 December 1998) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach.
He played for the St. George Dragons for eight seasons between 1950 and 1958 and played 115 games for the club scoring 17 tries. He retired after the 1958 Third Grade grand final.
Club and state coaching career
He then went on to become a first-grade coach with Cronulla-Sutherland, a Premiership-winning coach with Canterbury-Bankstown in the 1980 NSWRFL season and lastly he coached St. George to a victory in the 1988 Panasonic Cup.[3]
Glossop is also remembered as the inaugural coach of the New South Wales State of Origin team from 1980 to 1981, being (replaced by Frank Stanton in 1982) and returning for the 1983 series.[4]
