b'F R O M T H E B E G I N N I N G4SportB ill Nimmo was a very keen sportsman. He had rowed for St. Andrews College and at his school he coached rugby,cricket and athletics. His abilities as a rugby coach were leg-endary. At one stage, starting in the late twenties, Coogee Prep wonthe Preparatory School Competition for six or seven years in a row.It is remarkable that a school the size of Coogee Prep has played apart in producing four rugby players for Australia, plus many otherexcellent sportsmen such as Edward Leslie (192933), who wouldhave played for Australia had not the War intervened. Arthur Noel (Huck) Finlay, who was born at Christmas in1903, attended Coogee Prep, before moving on to Sydney Grammarin 1919. A powerful, robust second row forward, he played in thethree-TestseriesagainstNewZealandin1929andagainsttheBritish Isles in 1930.James Richard Leonard Palfreyman was a year or so youngerthanHuckFinlay.HespentfouryearsunderNimmosguidancebefore he too moved across to Sydney Grammar in the same year,1919. Len Palfreyman was a tall, fast breakaway who played forRandwick,andwonabigreputationinrepresentativefootball intheDepressionyears.HisfourTestsagainstNewZealand andGreatBritainwereplayedbetween1929and1932.Lensyounger brother, Russell, and nephew, Sean Chapman (195155),also attended CPS. Dr. H.J. Solomon had been taught by Bill Nimmo back in thedays of the Sydney Preparatory School and so he sent his son, John,to Coogee Prep from 1934 to 1942. The second Dr.Herbert JohnSolomon played for Australia for eight years from 1949 to 1956; hewas Captain from 1952 to 1956; and in 1957 he was the AustralianCoach. In Australian Rugby Union, Jack Pollard writes of him:One of the most intelligent utility backs Australian Rugby has known,achunky,schemingwinger,insidecentreorfive-eighthwho 5 4'