Edmund Charles Renouf scored the second and final goal as Palmwoods beat Buderim 2-0 in what was considered at the time to be the first game of soccer on the Sunshine Coast, held on 31 July 1920. Born in Jersey in the Channel Islands, he had been living in the Sunshine Coast hinterland since at least 1915, after his family emigrated in 1911.
Renouf was a late enlistment, having joined up aged 19 on 8 January 1918. At the time he was a member of the Palmwoods Rifle Club, who held a farewell for Renouf and two others before their departure. It is unknown whether he played soccer before the war, as youth football was rarely reported, nor was it considered to have been played in the region at the time.
Renouf was assigned to the 41st Battalion and left Australia in March. He arrived in France in August, but his service record is otherwise clear until his return to Australia in mid-1919. On his return Renouf played for the Palmwoods club during the first official competition organised by the North Coast Football Association in 1921.
In May 1921 he became the first and for two years only opposition player to score at the home ground of local powerhouse North Arm. Palmwood folded by 1923, and it is unknown whether Renouf played elsewhere.
He became involved with fruit growing, winning prizes for his pineapples in the late 1920s.