Wally McArthur

Wally McArthur (1 December 1933 – 28 August 2015) was an Aboriginal Australian rugby league footballer and track and field athlete. In 2008, the centenary of rugby league in Australia, he was named in the Aboriginal Australian rugby league team of the Century.

He was a member of the Stolen Generations.

Biography McArthur was born in 1933 in Borroloola in the Northern Territory, until he was removed from his family and sent to The Bungalow in Alice Springs. McArthur is the younger cousin of John Kundereri Moriarty who was taken from the same area. There he lived at St Francis House boys boarding home and became a noted short-distance runner. He went on to play a total of 165 games in English rugby league with Rochdale Hornets, Blackpool Borough, Salford and Workington Town. He returned to Australia in 1959.