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1949 South Sydney season

New South Wales Rugby League season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ109237159 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1949 South Sydney was the 42nd in the club's history. The club competed in the New South Wales Rugby Football League Premiership (NSWRFL), finishing the season as runner-ups and minor premiers.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1949 South Sydney season” as new South Wales Rugby League season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where South, Sydney and season can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as new South Wales Rugby League season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Q109237159. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1949.

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This entry incorporates text from “1949 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.