Career Record for Featherstone
Appearances			Tries	Goals	Drop Goals	Points
Total	Start	Sub
1	1	0	0	0	0	0

Edgar Woolley played for Featherstone Rovers in the earliest days after its reformation in 1908. He found himself in the peculiar position of being suspended before he had even played a game. At a Wakefield and District League meeting held in September 1908 it was reported that he had signed on for both Featherstone Rovers and Purston White Horse. The League Committee decided that for this misdemeanour he would be suspended until November 1st and then he would belong to the Rovers.

His suspension duly completed, Edgar Woolley played his first game on November 6th, 1908, at Knottingley and celebrated by scoring two tries. However, his entry into the Rovers' ranks was short lived, because a few days later he broke his thumb in training. He was back in the New Year, and in the game at Lofthouse on February 19th, 1909, he scored five tries. At that time this was the Rovers' record, which did not pass unnoticed, and that same month he was transferred to Halifax for £20. He continued to play for the Rovers on loan until the end of the season and helped them to win the Yorkshire Junior Cup.

Woolley then moved from Halifax to Wakefield. In 1915, when the Rovers were playing friendlies against Northern League clubs, he briefly returned to assist his old club, along with other ex-players such as Joe Lyman of Dewsbury. He finished at Wakefield in 1919 and retired. However, in October 1921, Rovers, now a senior club, found that all their regular three-quarter line (Jack Hirst, Norman Reeves and the Denton brothers) were injured. Edgar Woolley turned out for what was his only senior appearance with the Rovers.

Biography by Irvin Saxton