Ted Spillane
Edmund Timothy Spillane was a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s, and coached in the 1930s. He played at representative level for Dominion XIII and Canterbury, and at club level for Marist, and the English clubs Wigan, Keighley and Bradford Northern, as a, or, i.e. number 2 or 5, 3 or 4, 6, or 7, and coached at club level for Bradford Northern, and Bramley, he died in Leeds.
Spillane played in Canterbury's 26-66 defeat by Auckland in the 1928 New Zealand rugby league season Northern Union Cup in Auckland. Having become a well-known player and five-eighth for the Marist senior team, he signed on with English club Wigan in October 1929.
Spillane played in Dominion XIII's 6-3 victory over France at Stadium Municipal, Toulouse on Sunday 21 March 1937.
Spillane married Edith in Bradford in 1938.
He worked as an assistant coach at Bradford before being appointed Bramley's head coach.
Spillane died on 2 December 1991, and was buried at the Killingbeck Roman Catholic Cemetery.
