sentences:  For ten years Le Couteur served on various university committees and school councils and captained the Hawthorn-East Melbourne Cricket Club.Unsuccessful in applications for the headship of Sydney Grammar School in 1921 and the mastership of Queen's in 1927, he became headmaster of Hale School in 1929.In 1931 he was appointed headmaster of Newington College succeeding the Rev Dr Charles Prescott.