Eddie Root
Personal information |
Full name |
Edward Root |
Playing information |
Position |
Second-row, Prop |
Club |
Years |
Team |
Pld |
T |
G |
FG |
P |
1923–29 |
South Sydney |
68 |
29 |
1 |
0 |
89 |
1930 |
Newtown |
12 |
7 |
1 |
0 |
23 |
1931–33 |
South Sydney |
31 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
1935–36 |
St. George |
24 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
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Total |
135 |
44 |
2 |
0 |
136 |
Representative |
Years |
Team |
Pld |
T |
G |
FG |
P |
1927–32 |
New South Wales |
18 |
4 |
4 |
16 |
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1929–30 |
Australia |
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Eddie Root was an Australian
rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 30s. A
State and Australian national representative, his club career was played in Sydney with the
South Sydney Rabbitohs, the
Newtown Bluebags and the
St. George Dragons. Enlisted in
World War I at the age of just 16 years, he had the distinction of being the last representative footballer to go to the Great War.
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Playing career
A South Sydney junior, Root started playing first grade for the Rabbitohs in 1923, becoming a mainstay in the side in 1926. That year he first tasted premiership success with the Rabbitohs, who also won the following two years' competitions. He was sent off in the 1926 decider against University.
He made his representative debut for New South Wales in 1927 and was regularly selected for the Blues over the next six seasons.[2] He was selected to go on the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, playing in fifteen tour matches but no Tests.[3]
When the NSWRL changed the South Sydney/Newtown boundary distinction in 1930 Root spent the following season with Newtown due
to the strict residential criteria of the time. He then returned to the Rabbitohs and played in the back-to-back premiership-winning Souths sides of 1931 and 1932. In 1935 he was signed by St. George and played in the record-breaking 91-6 win over competition newcomers Canterbury-Bankstown before later becoming the club's captain-coach.
References
- Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney
- Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
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- 1. Albert Spillane
- 2. Benny Wearing
- 3. Jack Morrison
- 4. Paddy Maher
- 5. Jack Why
- 6. Jim Deeley
- 7. Harry Eyres
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Persondata |
Name |
Root, Edward |
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Short description |
Australian rugby league player |
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