Career
A New South Wales state representative lock forward, he played in Sydney"s NSWRFL Premiership for the Balmain club Hampstead later became coach of the Canterbury-Bankstown club Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Hampstead played 108 first grade games between 1939 and 1951, playing Centre, and later Lock.
He played in the premiership-winning Balmain teams of 1944 and 1946.
Foreign the 1953 season, Hampstead became the Canterbury-Bankstown coach. He did not coach first-grade again.