Post Playing
In 2000 Hall was awarded the Australian Sports Medal. In 2006 he was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame. The Duncan Hall Medal, is presented in his honour to award to the best and fairest player in the Queensland Cup.
In 2007 Hall was selected by a panel of experts at prop in an Australian 'Team of the 50s'.
In February 2008, Hall was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. Hall went on to be named in the front-row in Australian rugby league's Team of the Century. Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players. In June 2008, he was chosen in the Queensland Rugby League's Team of the Century at prop-forward.
In 2008, rugby league in Australia's centenary year, Hall was named at second-row forward in the Toowoomba and South West Team of the Century.
Hall resided in a nursing home at Coolum, Queensland until his death at age 85 in 2011.
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