Robert 'Botsy' Williams (died 1969) was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n 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...

 player for the Eastern Suburbs

Sydney Roosters

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 club.

Williams had a distinguishing career with the Eastern Suburbs club, a long serving member who was one of the first to play in 100 matches for the club. The rugby union

Rugby union

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 convert played in 118 matches for the Tri-colours

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

 in the years 1910–18 and 1920. Williams, or 'Botsy' as he was better known, won premierships with Eastern Suburbs in 1911, 1912 and 1913, taking out rugby league's first permanent trophy, the RAS shield

Royal Agricultural Society Shield

The Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales Challenge Shield, or RAS Shield was the New South Wales Rugby Football League's first premiership trophy. It was presented to each year's premiership winning rugby league team and was won by South Sydney, Newtown and Eastern Suburbs. The first club...

. He was also a member of Easts' City Cup

City Cup

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 winning sides in 1914, 1915 & 1916. The front-row forward went away on the second Kangaroo tour representing his country in two tests. Williams was a member of the first New South Wales side to tour New Zealand

New Zealand

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Williams later coached at the top level, coaching North Sydney

North Sydney Bears

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 and Queensland in the 1939 interstate series.

Williams died in 1969 aged 82.