Eric Frodsham was an English 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, who played as a fullback for St. Helens and Warrington

Warrington Wolves

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.

Club career

Following Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 service during World War II

World War II

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, Frodsham signed for St. Helens in 1947. After a short spell for the club, he was transferred to Warrington in 1948. It was there that he spent the remainder of his career.

In 1950, Frodsham made his first-team breakthrough when he replaced Les "Cowboy" Jones

Les Jones

Les Jones was an English rugby league player for the St. Helens club in the English Rugby Football League Championship competition. His position of choice was at . Only one player, Tom van Vollenhoven, has scored more than his 282 tries for the St...

 as fullback. He went on to make a total of 48 appearances for Warrington during the 1950–51 season, a club record which he repeated in 1953-54, and still holds to this day.

The highlight of Frodsham's career came in the 1953–54 season in which Warrington secured both the League and Challenge Cup titles. The re-played final of the latter, against Halifax

Halifax RLFC

Halifax RLFC is one of the most historic rugby league clubs in the game, formed over a century ago, in 1873 in the Yorkshire town of Halifax. Known as 'Fax', the official club colours are blue and white hoops, blue shorts and blue socks . They share The Shay stadium with football club FC Halifax Town...

, saw a Warrington side captained by Frodsham win by 18 points to 4. The match took place at Odsal Stadium

Odsal Stadium

Odsal Stadium is a stadium situated in Odsal, Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The venue is used for rugby league and has been the home ground of Bradford Bulls/Bradford Northern since 1934...

 in Bradford

Bradford

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 and attracted a crowd in the region of 120,000. At the time, this was a world record attendance for a rugby match of either code.

Frodsham's career came to an end in 1955 when he broke his wrist during a 25-7 win against Liverpool City

Liverpool City (rugby league)

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. In total he made 226 appearances for Warrington, scoring 125 points.

Death

Frodsham died in his home in Rainford

Rainford

Rainford is a village and civil parish within Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, in Merseyside, England. It is around north of St Helens. At the 2001 Census the population of the civil parish was 8,344....

in January 2003. He is survived by his widow Doris, and his daughters Linda, Susan and Julie.