Arthur Oxford

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Arthur Oxford (1895 - 1980) was an Australian rugby league footballer, a state and national representative whose club career was played with the Eastern Suburbs Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs from 1915 to 1929.

He won a premiership with Souths in NSWRL season 1918 and later with Easts in NSWRL season 1923.

In 1920 he kicked a then record 23 successive goals in club matches for Souths. For the season 1923, he was the NSW Rugby Football League's top point scorer.

A player who represented both Queensland & NSW
A player who represented both Queensland & NSW

He represented for New South Wales in twenty-two matches against Queensland from 1919 - 1924. He made five Test appearances in the Australia national rugby league team touring against New Zealand in 1919 and later against Great Britain. In 1925 during a season as captain-coach of Rockhampton in Queensland he was selected as a Queensland representative.

His son, also called Arthur Oxford, played first grade for Eastern Suburbs in the 1940s, his cousin Aub Oxford was a lower grade player who went on to become a top-grade and international level referee and his grandson Gary Stevens was a Rabbitohs star of the 1960s and an Australian Test representative.