Wally McArthur (1 December 1933 – 28 August 2015) was an Aboriginal Australian rugby league footballer and track and field athlete.
[5] 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.
[6] There he lived at St Francis House boys boarding home and became a noted short-distance runner.
[7][8] McArthur was also interested in playing Australian rules football, but was denied this because of a "colour bar".
[8][6] McArthur played in the South Australian Rugby League and Western Australia Rugby League before moving to England to play a total of 165 games with Rochdale Hornets,[9] Blackpool Borough, Salford and Workington Town.