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Eric Magill

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Playing Career

All information provided below is based only on data available in the RLP database and should be used as a guide only.

Vital Statistics

Full Name
Eric Lindsay Magill
Nickname(s)
Digger
Born
Tuesday, 31st January, 1922
Died
Wednesday, 24th March, 1982 (Aged 60 years and 52 days)
Place Of Birth
Hay, New South Wales, Australia

Additional Notes

Listed as R Magill for his initial 1st grade game with Wests in rd 13 1944 Wests Archive have confirmed this to be Eric Magill who was a prominent Army player & later played with Souths. https://westsarchives.com.au/wests-players/eric-lindsay-digger-magill/

Playing Career Statistics

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Club Career - Australia Comp WinsStartsIntAPPTGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
NSWRFL (NRL Premiership) -3-3-------21-66.67%List
Overall StartsIntAPPTGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
First Class 3-3-------21-66.67%List

Australia - By Team

TeamYears StartsIntAPPTGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
Army Seconds1944 1-1-------1--100.00%List

NSWRFL (NRL Premiership) - By Year

TeamSeason StartsIntAPPTGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
Western SuburbsWestern Suburbs19441944 NSWRFL 2-2-------11-50.00%List
SouthsSouth Sydney19471947 NSWRFL 1-1-------1--100.00%List

NSWRFL (NRL Premiership) - By Team

TeamYears StartsIntAPPTGFGPtsBin5BinOffWLDWin% 
Western Suburbs1944 2-2-------11-50.00%List
South Sydney1947 1-1-------1--100.00%List

Your Say

  • John Magill
    30 Sep 2014 11:02pm

    Eric(nick name-Digger)was my father and my mother,Marie Magill,kept a scrap book of dads newspaper clippings & photos of him playing for Souths.They said that this man will play for Australia one day but unfortunately he broke his knee cartilage & in those days there was no operation that could fix it,so ended what could have been a brilliant careerThe rabbitohs got him from the army representative team & he was paid 350 pounds for one game when the average Australian wage was not quite 7 pounds per week.

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