| Playing information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position | Forward | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1931 | Griffith | |||||
| 1932–37 | South Sydney | 76 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 47 |
| Total | 76 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 47 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1935 | New South Wales | |||||
| 1935–38 | Australia | 9 | ||||
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1945 | South Sydney | |||||
Eric Lewis was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1930s. A New South Wales interstate and Australian international representative forward, he played club football in the NSWRFL for South Sydney,[1] winning the 1932 Premiership with them.
Lewis started playing for Waverley's Christian Brothers club before spending a season playing in Griffith in 1931. He then returned to Sydney, and at the end of the 1932 NSWRFL season, Lewis' first in the top grade,[2] he played in the premiership final for Souths, scoring a try in their 19-12 victory over Western Suburbs.
Lewis played for Souths in the 1935 NSWRFL season's premiership final loss to Eastern Suburbs. After that he toured New Zealand with the Australian national team, becoming Kangaroo No. 200.
Lewis was a member of the 1937-38 Kangaroo touring side to England and France.[3] The French leg of this tour helped establish rugby league in France.
Lewis coached Souths for the 1945 NSWRFL season.[4]
In Papua New Guinea during World War II, Lewis spotted Jack Rayner playing inter-regiment rugby league on a muddy field at Port Moresby and invited him to trial with South Sydney when he got home.[5] Rayner went on to captain and coach Souths, becoming an important figure in the club's history.
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