Sam Edwards (rugby league)
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Samuel Kingi Edwards | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Prop | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| Marist (Auckland) | ||||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1961 | Bay of Plenty | |||||
| 1961–66 | New Zealand | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 1962–66 | Auckland | |||||
| New Zealand Māori | ||||||
| Source: [1][2] | ||||||
Samuel Kingi Edwards is a New Zealand former international representative rugby league footballer of the 1960s. While he played in Auckland, he was selected to play for the New Zealand national team as well as the New Zealand Māori team.[3]
During the 1958 Auckland Rugby League season Edwards played for Marist. He would go on to form a formidable New Zealand front row trio partnering prop Maunga Emery and joined by Jock Butterfield at hooker.[4][3] Edwards was selected to go on the 1965 New Zealand rugby league tour of Great Britain and France.[4]
References
- ↑ "NZRL - Past Kiwis". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "NZLEAGUE.CO.NZ - Home". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- 1 2 Coffey, John; Wood, Bernie (2008). 100 Years: Māori Rugby League, 1908–2008. New Zealand: Huia Publishers. ISBN 978-1-86969-331-2. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- 1 2 "WELLINGTON'S BEST EVER XIII HOOKERS". foxsportspulse.com. Wellington Rugby League. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
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