- Edward Root
Infobox rugby league biography
playername = Eddie Root
fullname = Edward Root
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position = Forwards
club1 = South Sydney
year1start = 1923
year1end = 1929
appearances1 = 68
tries1 = 29
goals1 = 1
fieldgoals1 = 0
points1 = 89
club2 = Newtown
year2start = 1930
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appearances2 = 12
tries2 = 7
goals2 = 1
fieldgoals2 = 0
points2 = 23
club3 = South Sydney
year3start = 1931
year3end = 1933
appearances3 = 31
tries3 = 5
goals3 = 0
fieldgoals3 = 0
points3 = 15
club4 = St. George
year4start = 1935
year4end = 1936
appearances4 = 24
tries4 = 3
goals4 = 0
fieldgoals4 = 0
points4 = 9
teamA = New South Wales
yearAstart = 1927
yearAend = 1932
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teamB = Australia
yearBstart = 1929
yearBend = 1930
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source =Edward Root is a former
rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 30s. Enlisted inWorld War I at the age of just 16 years, he had the distinction of being the last representative footballer to go to the Great Warcite web
url = http://www.showroom.com.au/dragons/dragonshistory/history_players_pqr.htm
title = History of St. George
accessdate = 2008-10-06
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quote = ] . 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 toured Great Britain with the 1929-30 Kangaroos. Root spent the following season with Newtown before returning to the Rabbitohs and playing 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
External links
* [http://www.yesterdayshero.com.au/PlayerProfile_Eddie-Root_7095.aspx Eddie Root at yesterdayshero.com.au]
* [http://www.nrlstats.com/archive/players.cfm?PlayerID=2626 Eddie Root at nrlstats.com]
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