Arthur Folwell

Who is Arthur Folwell?

Arthur Folwell was an Australian rugby league footballer, coach and administrator of the early to mid-20th century. An Australian national and New South Wales state representative hooker, he played his club football in the New South Wales Rugby Football League for Sydney's Newtown club before becoming their coach and taking them to the 1943 NSWRFL premiership.

In 1933 Folwell was first selected for the Australia national rugby league team, making him Kangaroo No. 179.

In Folwell's final year as coach of Newtown he took them to the 1944 NSWRFL season's grand final which was lost to Balmain.

Folwell's grandson Greg Pierce became an Australian international rugby league footballer of the 1970s.

Folwell was named at hooker in the Newtown Jets Team of the Century.