Vale

Henry Thomas Taylor

aka: Harry ‘Blue’ Taylor

10/5/1921 – 29/11/2004

North Sydney Representative 1942/43 and 1946

Games: 25

Tries: 6

Goals: 3

Harry came into grade in 1942 as a ‘young sandy-haired lock, able to run a football field in even time’. It is widely accepted that had Blue Taylor been available on the day of the 1943 Norths v Newtown Grand Final, the result may have gone Norths way. The story goes that Harry was either on duty in Brisbane for the 2nd Mountain Battery, preparing for an offensive in New Guinea, or he was the victim of a cunning Newtown plan, which saw him arrested by military police as he entered the SCG, for being absent without leave. Although in Harry Taylor's own words "Maybe I told a bloke I was thinking of trying to get there, he told a bloke and he told a bloke and by the time it went around I'd not only gone, but I'd got arrested. Still, it made good copy. I read it in the paper myself."

"Harry Taylor would have attained that honour (Test Selection), if there had not been a war." George Crawford - North Sydney Leagues Club Journal, August 1968.