Samuel Kingi Edwards was a Maori New Zealand former international representative rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s.
[citation needed] His mother was Ani Kingi from Torere affiliated to Ngai Tai.
[3][4] During the 1958 Auckland Rugby League season Edwards played for Marist.
He would go on to form a formidable New Zealand front row trio partnering prop Maunga Emery and joined by Jock Butterfield at hooker.
[5][4] Edwards was selected to go on the 1965 New Zealand rugby league tour of Great Britain and France.