Frank Hyde R.I.P

[Brutus]

Just heard on 2KY that the great Frank Hyde passed away this morning aged 91.

R.I.P Mr Hyde - you will be truly missed.

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

Jesus, I know Frank had a good knock at 91 but that has floored me.

I grew up listening to his calls on the radio,

RIP Frank.

 

[planeteels]

RIP to a great great Man and an even bigger Character who helped to build the Game of Rugby League to what is has become.

 

[Skinner]

Does anyone have a link please

 

[Skinner]

Actually...I do :

http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2007/09/24/Frank_Hyde_dies

 

[Dogaholic]

R.I>P Frank Hyde.

Condolences to his family & friends

 

[Glenn]

Very sad news, definitely revolutionised the way the game was called.
My condolences to his family and friends.
R.I.P

 

[Whoosh]

RIP Frank. A legend of the game.

 

[Eelectrica]

RIP Frank.
Condolences to family and friends.
Thanks for the memories.

 

[Nickeel]

Rest in peace, Frank. You were before my time and yet I have always held you up as one of the most respected and noble figures in the game. No-one in the modern crop of commentators comes close.

Nick

 

[Twizzle]

I grew up listening to Frank Hyde on the radio

"if its long enough and its high enough, its straight between the posts"

absolute legend

RIP

 

[innsaneink]

An ornament to the game, a piece of the furniture is now missing.....for so long he was the link between thousands and thousand of fans and the game....for many, Frank Hyde WAS rugby league.....
....many people come and go in this game, not many will be missed more than Frank Hyde imo.

 

[The Preacher]

R.I.P. Frank, A True Champion.

 

[parra pete]

Good knock, Great bloke. Condolences to Gabby and family.
A true legend of the game.
Pity he did not get to see the Bears in a Grand Final once again.
RIP Frank..

 

[big pat]

one of the true greats,his battles with ron casey was great stuff, R.I.P.

 

[morri (cWo)]

just saw it on fox sports news. very sad. rip

 

[The Colonel]

League caller Frank Hyde deadArticle from: Font size: Decrease Increase Email article: Email Print article: Print Submit comment: Submit comment September 24, 2007 12:00am

LEGENDARY rugby league caller Frank Hyde has reportedly died. Sydney radio news bulletins have reported the news today. He was 91.

Hyde's son Patrick told 2UE today his father "got on the bus" at 6.45am this morning.

His family had rallied to be at 91-year-old Hyde's side last night. He was lucid and asked for a Catholic priest to attend his bedside.

"He was a fantastic father. He was of very strong moral fibre and he passed it on to us."

In recent years, Hyde had been battling ill-health after a stroke but his spirits always remained high.

The Daily Telegraph's Ray Chesterton reports Hyde, a Balmain premiership-winning and NSW player, commentator, personality, football tour leader and entertainer whose rendition of Danny Boy was a hit record, was most of all an iconic rugby league caller on radio station 2SM.

He never lost the ratings in a career that included calling nearly 40 grand finals.

Frank Hyde was the clear, confident and authoritative voice of rugby league in all those years.

He was a man with a million friends and a million memories.

More importantly he was a man in a million.

He was a man who can say he's had a rugby league founding father, Dally Messenger, over for dinner, who took huge tours away following Kangaroos teams and became a TV fixture with his blues with Ron Casey on World of Sport.

Ever ready to provoke a man he regards with deep affection, Case once said about Frank: ``Of his singing I would say it's fine as long as you've had three or four drinks first.''

But Ray Chesterton reports : "My favourite Frank story is that he would greet people going on his tour for the first time and they would be fittingly respectful saying: "I've listened to you all my life Mr Hyde.''

By the second week of the tour things were more informal with yells coming when Frank walked in to the breakfast room:

"Hey Frank, can you do something about these eggs. They're pretty crook.''

Fame can be fleeting. With Frank it stuck solid.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22470357-5006066,00.html

 

[Sea_Eagles_Rock]

RIP Frank.

 

[Quigs]

R.I.P. Mr Long Enough High Enough and Straight between the Posts.

Frank Hyde was / is a legend.

No crap no favorites. He just called it like it was. It's a shame some of the modern day commentators couldn't take a leaf out of Franks book.

Condolences to his family and friends.

If my memory serves me correctly Frank Hyde was the last Captain of a winning North Sydney Bears First Grade side. (could be wrong)

It is a shame that Frank wont be with us next weekend to watch 'his' bears go around again albiet the Reserves.

It is another reason while I will be cheering for the Bears. The Peach and now Frank.

Thanks for the memories Frank Hyde

If I wasn't on the wagon I would toast the great man with a rum negreetah. (check me spellun there)

Cheers
Quigs

 

[nqboy]

A sad loss to the game. I was once introduced to Arthur Denovan, the voice of Aunty's football radio coverage while I was growing up and I was absolutely starstruck to meet him. I imagine Sydney people have a similar wrap on Frank Hyde.