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Sam Edwards (rugby league)

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Full name
  
Samuel Kingi Edwards

1961
  
Bay of Plenty

18
  
3

Position
  
Prop

1961–66
  
New Zealand

3
  
0

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.

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. Edwards was selected to go on the 1965 New Zealand rugby league tour of Great Britain and France.

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Sam Edwards (rugby league) Wikipedia