Herbert Stanley Woodhill (1875–1963) 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

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(NSWRL) competition. He was a fullback, from the Paddington rugby juniors in the 1890s and was a first grade Rugby player for Eastern Suburbs in the 1900s before switching codes. Woodhill played for the

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club in rugby league's founding season of 1908. After retiring from his playing career, he became a rugby league referee. He was also a veteran of the Boer War, serving with the N.S.W. Mounted Rifles between 1899 and 1902.

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* Australian rugby league players Sydney Roosters players 1875 births 1963 deaths Rugby league players from New South Wales {{Australia-rugbyleague-bio-1870s-stub