Roy Eric Farnsworth (1892-1957) was an Australian

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer who played in the 1910s.

Playing career

Youngest brother of the famous rugby league footballers: Bill Farnsworth and Viv Farnsworth, Roy Farnsworth was also a noted Half-back with Newtown. Roy enlisted in the Australian Army in World War I in 1915, and although he survived the war he did not play for Newtown again. In 1919 he turned out for Western Suburbs for a few games, before retiring from the

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Death

Farnsworth died on 19 June 1957 at

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.Sydney Morning Herald 22 JUN 1957 DEATH NOTICE

References

1892 births 1957 deaths Australian military personnel of World War I Australian rugby league players New South Wales rugby league team players Newtown Jets players Rugby league halfbacks Rugby league players from Marrickville, New South Wales Western Suburbs Magpies players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyleague-bio-1890s-stub