Roy Eric Farnsworth (1892-1957) was an Australian

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who played in the 1910s.

Playing career

Youngest brother of the famous rugby league footballers:

Bill Farnsworth Andrew William Farnsworth (14 January 1887 – 30 October 1966) was an Australian pioneer rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s whose club career was played in Sydney with Newtown. He represented at state level for both New South Wal ...

and

Viv Farnsworth Viv Farnsworth (1889–1953) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s. He played for Newtown, Wests, New South Wales and Australia, he also represented Australasia. He primarily played as and is ...

, Roy Farnsworth was also a noted Half-back with

Newtown Newtown may refer to: Places Australia *Newtown, New South Wales *Newtown, Queensland (Ipswich) *Newtown, Queensland (Toowoomba) *Newtown, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong *Newtown, Victoria (Golden Plains Shire), a locality near Ballarat Canada * ...

. Roy enlisted in the Australian Army in World War I in 1915, and although he survived the war he did not play for

again. In 1919 he turned out for Western Suburbs for a few games, before retiring from the NSWRFL.

Death

Farnsworth died on 19 June 1957 at

Concord, New South Wales Concord is a suburb in the inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay. People from Concord are colloquially ...

.Sydney Morning Herald 22 JUN 1957 DEATH NOTICE

References

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