Eddie Waring poached by Leeds
Eddie Waring Biography
RUGBY League was not Eddie Waring’s first love as a young man, he had excelled as a soccer player, playing on the wing for Yorkshire Amateurs, Nottingham Forest and Selby Town.
By the age of 22 he had made his mark in Rugby League as trainer for the Dewsbury Boys Team and was soon invited to become secretary-manager of the Dewsbury Rugby League Football Club who were bottom of the league.
Within a couple of seasons the club had won both the Challenge Cup and the Championship. Eddie, who cut a dashing figure in stylish clothes and trilby hat was, at 32, the youngest and most sought-after manager in the game. In 1944 he took what was regarded as the biggest job in the game at Headingley but less than two years later was released to become the very first journalist to cover a Rugby League tour in Australia.
Extract from Eddie Waring • GoDewsbury
Other Links to Eddie’s story:
Discovering the real Eddie Waring | The Independent | The Independent
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