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Reg Farnell

Australian rugby league player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ18393872 ↗
Source-derived summary

Reginald Cox Farnell (1891–1972) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s.

Playing career

Farnell was a premiership winning rugby league player for North Sydney. Farnell played six seasons with North Sydney between 1915-1918 and 1922-1923.

He also played one season for Eastern Suburbs in 1919. Farnell played prop forward in the victorious North Sydney team that won the 1922 Grand Final, and also made one appearance for New South Wales in 1919.

Farrell died at Tweed Heads, New South Wales on 11 July 1972, aged 81.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Reg Farnell” as australian rugby league player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1891, 1972, 1915, 1918—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1891. The account is most persuasive where Farnell, Australian and rugby can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as australian rugby league player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18393872. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1891, 1972, 1915 and 1918.

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This entry incorporates text from “Reg Farnell” 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.