Eddie White (rugby league)
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Paddington, New South Wales, Australia
Saratoga, New South Wales, Australia
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| Full name | Edward Charles White | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 May 1883 Paddington, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 March 1962 (aged 78) Saratoga, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing, Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Allegiance |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Service | Australian Army | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1900-1902 1916-1919 1940-1943 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unit | First Australian Imperial Force | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Relatives | Percy White (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edward Charles White (1883–1962) was an Australian rugby league footballer in formative years of the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership and an Australian Imperial Forces officer who saw active service in the Boer War and the Great War.
Born in Paddington on 8 May 1883, Eddie White was a wing with Eastern Suburbs. White played thirty-five matches for the Eastern Suburbs club in the years (1911–13). White was a member of Eastern Suburbs first premiership winning team of 1911 who beat Glebe in a premiership decider. He was a squad member of the sides that took out the RAS shield winning the 1912 and 1913 competitions on a points basis at the end of those regular seasons. Eddie was the Eastern Suburbs club's 53rd player and the older brother of teammate Percy White. His father John White was an early president of the Eastern Suburbs club.
White was a New South Wales state representative in rugby league. In his only appearance he scored two tries in a 1912 interstate match against Queensland.[2]