Arthur Oxford
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Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
footballer, a state and national representative whose club career was played with the Eastern Suburbs
Sydney Roosters
The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...
Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs
South Sydney Rabbitohs
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...
from 1915 to 1929.
He won a premiership with Souths in NSWRL season 1918 and later with Easts in NSWRL season 1923
New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1923
The 1923 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the sixteenth season of Sydney's top-level rugby league football club competition, Australia's first...
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In 1920 he kicked a then record 23 successive goals in club matches for Souths. For the season 1923
New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1923
The 1923 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the sixteenth season of Sydney's top-level rugby league football club competition, Australia's first...
, he was the NSW Rugby Football League's top point scorer.
He represented for New South Wales
New South Wales Rugby League team
The New South Wales rugby league team has represented the Australian state of New South Wales in rugby league football since the sport's beginnings there in 1907. Administered by the New South Wales Rugby League, the team competes in the annual State of Origin series against arch-rivals, the...
in twenty-two matches against Queensland
Queensland rugby league team
The Queensland rugby league team have represented the Australian state of Queensland in rugby league football since the sport's beginnings there in 1908...
from 1919 - 1924. He made five Test appearances in the Australia national rugby league team touring against New Zealand
New Zealand national rugby league team
The New Zealand national rugby league team has represented New Zealand in rugby league football since intercontinental competition began for the sport in 1907. Administered by the New Zealand Rugby League, they are commonly known as the Kiwis, after the native bird of that name...
in 1919 and later against Great Britain. In 1925 during a season as captain-coach of Rockhampton in Queensland he was selected as a Queensland representative, playing one match in 1925.
His son, also called Arthur Oxford, played first grade for Eastern Suburbs in the 1940s, his cousin Aub Oxford was a lower grade player who went on to become a top-grade and international level referee and his grandson Gary Stevens
Gary Stevens (rugby league)
Gary Stevens is an Australian former rugby league player, a hard tackling second-row forward of the 1960s and 1970s for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs and Australian national representative side. He is the grandson of Souths club great Arthur Oxford.-Club...
was a Rabbitohs star of the 1960s and an Australian Test representative.