Alby Why, born in Sydney, Australia, was a rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs

South Sydney Rabbitohs

The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...

 in the NSWRL 1930 season

New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1930

The 1930 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the twenty-third season of Sydney's top-level rugby league football competition, Australias's first. During the season, which lasted from April until October, eight teams from across the city contested the premiership which was won by...

. Brother of Australian Kangaroo, Jack Why, Alby played ten games for the Rabbitohs, scoring five tries.

In 1950, Why coached the Canterbury-Bankstown team for a season before taking over from Vic Bulgin

Vic Bulgin

Vic Bulgin was a rugby league player for the Eastern Suburbs and Canterbury Bulldogs and represented Australian in that sport...

half-way through 1951. He left the position at the end of 1952.