Percy Edmund Williams (1910-1996) was an Australian rugby league player who played in the 1930s and 1940s.
Playing career
A Souths junior, Williams became a long serving and valuable member of the
South Sydney club in the 1930s. He played seven seasons with South Sydney between 1931-1938 and also captained the club during the mid 1930s.
Williams was a dual premiership winner with
Souths, playing halfback in the
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
and
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
Grand Final teams.
Williams represented
New South Wales on 15 occasions between 1932-1938 and was selected on the 1937-38
Kangaroo Tour
Kangaroo Tour is the name given to Australian national rugby league team tours of Great Britain and France, tours to New Zealand and the one-off tour to Papua New Guinea (1991). The first Kangaroo Tour was in 1908. Traditionally, Kangaroo Tours to ...
, playing in two tests against England and two tests against New Zealand. He finished his career at
Newtown, playing two seasons (1940-1941) and was Captain-Coach in 1941. Later, he coached
St George Dragons in 1945 and
Eastern Suburbs in 1948.
Death
Williams died on 10 July 1996, 43 days short of his 86th birthday.
[St George & Sutherland Shire Leader: Death Notice 18/7/1996]
References
1910 births
1996 deaths
Australia national rugby league team players
City New South Wales rugby league team players
Country New South Wales rugby league team players
New South Wales rugby league team players
Newtown Jets coaches
Newtown Jets players
Rugby league five-eighths
Rugby league halfbacks
Rugby league players from Sydney
South Sydney Rabbitohs players
St. George Dragons coaches
South Sydney Rabbitohs captains
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