Bill Farnsworth was an Australian rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 footballer of the 1910s. In NSWRFL season 1910, he won the premiership with Newtown

Newtown Jets

The Newtown Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west. They currently compete in the NSWRL Premier League competition, having left the top grade after the 1983 NSWRFL season...

 and was also selected to represent Australia and New South Wales, he also represented Australasia

Australasia rugby league team

-1911-12:Following individual tours by New Zealand and Australia in 1907-08 and 1908-09 respectively, the Northern Rugby Football Union invited an 'Australasian' team to tour Great Britain during the 1911-12 season...

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He is the brother of fellow New South Wales and Australian representative, and Newtown player Viv Farnsworth

Viv Farnsworth

Viv Farnsworth was an Australian professional rugby league player for Newtown, Wests, New South Wales and Australia, he also represented Australasia...

. He was selected to tour Great Britain with the 1911-12 Kangaroos.

Farnsworth also played in Brisbane for Toombul and Kurilpa, gaining selection for Queensland

Queensland rugby league team

The Queensland rugby league team have represented the Australian state of Queensland in rugby league football since the sport's beginnings there in 1908...

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In 1924 Farnsworth returned to the Newtown club as coach for part of the season.

In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, Farnsworth was named in the Newtown Jets 18-man team of the century.