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1909 South Sydney season

NSW Rugby League season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ108872527 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1909 South Sydney season was the 2nd in the club's history. Captained by primarily by Arthur Conlin, the club competed in the New South Wales Rugby Football League Premiership (NSWRFL), finishing the season repeating as Australian rugby league premiers.

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The public source identifies “1909 South Sydney season” as nSW Rugby League season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around South, Sydney and season.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1909—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with South, Sydney and season providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108872527. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1909.

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This entry incorporates text from “1909 South Sydney season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.