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1955 New Zealand Rugby League Season
The 1955 New Zealand rugby league season was the 48th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand. International competitions New Zealand drew a series against France, 1-all. The New Zealand side for the Test series included; Roy Moore, Bob Hawes, Ron McKay, captain Tommy Baxter, Bruce Robertson, Bill Sorensen, Pat Creedy, Cliff Johnson, Lory Blanchard, Bill McLennan, George McDonald, Jock Butterfield, Alister Atkinson, Jim Riddell and George Menzies. Canterbury defeated the touring French side 24–12, while Auckland defeated France 17–15.Coffey and Wood ''The Kiwis: 100 Years of International Rugby League'' Auckland included Dick Haggie, Vern Bakalich, captain Tommy Baxter, Cyril Eastlake, Royce Craike, Bill Sorensen, Sel Belsham, Joe Ratima, Arch McInteer, Henry Maxwell, Jim Riddell, Keith Bell and Ian Grey. France defeated the West Coast 18–12, Wellington 19–14, Taranaki 46-17 but lost to the New Zealand Māori 28–20. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 New Zealand Rugby League Season
The 1954 New Zealand rugby league season was the 47th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand. International competitions New Zealand lost a Test series to Great Britain 1–2. New Zealand included; Des White, Cyril Eastlake, Ron McKay, Tommy Baxter, Jimmy Edwards, George Menzies, captain Jimmy Haig, Cliff Johnson, Roy Roff, Bill McLennan, John Bond, Frank Mulcare, Alister Atkinson, Ron Ackland, Vern Bakalich, Bill Sorensen, Lory Blanchard, Jock Butterfield and Jim Austin. Wingham Park hosted one of the matches, its only test to date. With a capacity of 4000 it became the smallest test venue in the world. Auckland defeated Great Britain 5–4 at Carlaw Park while Canterbury lost 60–14 to the Lions and the South Island lost 11–32.Coffey, John. ''Canterbury XIII'', Christchurch, 1987. The Auckland match was a rough match which resulted in Nat Silcock and Jack Wilkinson being sent off and a serious spleen injury to Des White from an illegal Doug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alister Atkinson
Alister James Atkinson (1925-2002) was a New Zealand rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played representative rugby league (RL) for New Zealand in the 1954 World Cup. His position of preference was at Loose forward. Playing career Atkinson started his career as a rugby union player and represented the Canterbury Rugby Union in 1945 and 1946. After switching codes, Atkinson became a Linwood Keas player in the Canterbury Rugby League competition and a Canterbury and South Island representative. Atkinson was a reserve for New Zealand in 1950 and first played for the New Zealand national rugby league team in 1951.''Lion Red 1988 Rugby League Annual'', New Zealand Rugby Football League, 1988. p.p.160-167 Atkinson toured Great Britain and France in 1951–52 and 1955–56 and was allocated in Australia in 1952. Overall, he played in 71 games for the Kiwis, Pineapples, Oranges and pears including in 24 tests and was the vice captain of the squad in the inaugu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Coast Rugby League Team
The West Coast rugby league team are New Zealand rugby league team that represents the West Coast Rugby League. They have been nicknamed the ''Chargers''. History The West Coast side played its first match against Canterbury, losing 30–16 on 3 June 1915 at Victoria Park, Greymouth. That night the West Coast Rugby League was formed. Canterbury then played Blackball the next day, winning 23-10 before defeating Hokitika 33–8 on 5 June. The team for the West Coast was; H. Lawrence, L. Smith, L. Hunter, A. Hobson, W. Kirk, Hay, R. Watts, J. Rear, S.Bligh, A. Kells, D. McCann, T. Todd, J. Stenhouse.Coffey, John. ''Canterbury XIII'', Christchurch, 1987 They next played in 1919 when they lost to Canterbury 5–3. The West Coast recorded their first win in 1923 when they defeated Wellington 12–6. They first defeated Canterbury in 1931, winning 37–19, before following it up the following year with a 53–26 win. Since then rugby league has traditionally been the most successful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Grey (rugby League)
Ian Neville Grey (6 April 1931 – 7 July 2009) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand in the 1954 World Cup. Early life Born in Auckland in 1931, Grey was the son of New Zealand rugby league representative Eric Grey and was a noted tennis player in his youth. Playing career Grey played in the Auckland Rugby League competition as a loose forward, first playing three games for Richmond in 1948 before moving to Point Chevalier between 1948 and 1956. He then captained Northern Districts in 1957 and was captain-coach in 1958. Northern Districts was a combination of North Shore and Northcote. Grey represented Auckland from 1951 to 1958 and the North Island in 1954. He first played for the New Zealand national rugby league team at the 1954 World Cup Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Bell (rugby League, Born 1934)
Keith George Bell was a New Zealand former rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ... footballer who represented New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand in the 1957 Rugby League World Cup, 1957 World Cup. He played for and coached numerous sides and was heavily involved with the Ponsonby Ponies. Early life Bell was raised in Ponsonby, New Zealand, Ponsonby, Auckland and attended Ponsonby Primary School and Auckland University of Technology#History, Seddon Memorial Technical College. In 1954, he received a New Zealand ''Certificate of Due Completion of Apprenticeship'' and became a qualified Carpentry, carpenter. Playing career Bell played for the Ponsonby Ponies in the Auckland Rugby League competition. In 1955 he was selected for Auckland rugb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Maxwell (rugby League)
Henry Dudley Maxwell (1932 – 23 August 2013) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand in the 1957 and 1960 World Cups. Biography Maxwell played for the Point Chevalier Pirates in the Auckland Rugby League competition. He represented Auckland. He was selected to go on the 1955–56 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain and France. Maxwell played in a total of 20 tests for the Kiwis, including at the 1957 and 1960 World Cups. Henry played for the Rest of the World against Australia at the end of the World Cup. He was made captain of the Auckland side in 1958.Coffey, John and Bernie Wood ''Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009'', 2009. . Maxwell played for Western United in the Auckland competition after Point Chevalier combined with Mount Albert. Of Te Aupōuri descent, Maxwell captained the New Zealand Māori team on the 1956 tour of Australia. He retired following the 1960 World Cup. He later moved to Batlow, New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Ratima
Joe or JOE may refer to: Arts Film and television * ''Joe'' (1970 film), starring Peter Boyle * ''Joe'' (2013 film), starring Nicolas Cage * ''Joe'' (TV series), a British TV series airing from 1966 to 1971 * ''Joe'', a 2002 Canadian animated short about Joe Fortes Music and radio * "Joe" (Inspiral Carpets song) * "Joe" (Red Hot Chili Peppers song) * "Joe", a song by The Cranberries on their album ''To the Faithful Departed'' *"Joe", a song by PJ Harvey on her album '' Dry'' *"Joe", a song by AJR on their album ''OK Orchestra'' * Joe FM (other), any of several radio stations Computing * Joe's Own Editor, a text editor for Unix systems * Joe, an object-oriented Java computing framework based on Sun's Distributed Objects Everywhere project Media * Joe (website), a news website for the UK and Ireland * ''Joe'' (magazine), a defunct periodical developed originally for Kenyan youth Places * Joe, North Carolina, United States, a town * Jõe, Saaremaa Parish, Eston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sel Belsham
Selwyn Eric Belsham (28 September 1930 – 11 March 2016) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand at the 1957 World Cup. His position of preference was at . He also played cricket for Auckland. His brother Vic was also a New Zealand national rugby league team representative. Vic later became a referee, controlling his brother's team in the 1957 World Cup. Their father Alf represented Auckland in rugby union. Sporting career Rugby league An Auckland representative, Belsham played for the Richmond club in the Auckland Rugby League competition. He represented the North Island on three occasions, in 1955, 1956 and 1957. Belsham represented the New Zealand national rugby league team, playing 10 consecutive test matches between 1955 and 1957. He was first selected for the 1955 tour of Great Britain and France, but began the trip with a broken collarbone, suffered in New Zealand. He played in only two games during the England leg of the trip before makin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Eastlake
Cyril Aston Eastlake (21 August 1930 – 30 September 2007) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented his nation in the sport. He captained New Zealand at the 1954 World Cup and also played at the 1960 World Cup. Early years Eastlake was from Auckland and was educated at St Peter's College where he played rugby union. He started playing rugby league without realising it, when somebody knocked at the family house door one Saturday morning wanting to know whether the young Eastlake would play football because he was short of a player. He was due to play rugby union for St Peter's in the afternoon but he was told that he could have an "extra game". Eastlake said: "I enjoyed the game tremendously and had some success in scoring a couple of tries, mainly because both sides appeared to be a few players short and there seemed to be a lot more room to run before someone tackled you. Towards the end of the game I realised there had been very few lineouts. In fact, I couldn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vern Bakalich
Vernon Andrew Neville Bakalich (8 July 1929 – 21 November 2015) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand in the 1957 World Cup. Playing career Bakalich played for Richmond in the Auckland Rugby League competition and was an Auckland representative. He was first selected for the New Zealand national rugby league team in 1953 in a test series against Australia. Bakalich played in the 1954 test series against Great Britain but was not selected for the inaugural World Cup later that year. In 1955 Bakalich returned to the side, touring Great Britain and France. Bakalich scored a then record twenty six tries in 30 games while on tour.Coffey, John and Bernie Wood ''Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009'', 2009. . He toured Australia in 1956 and was part of the squad for the 1957 World Cup. His last appearance for the Kiwis was against France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Haggie
Richard Haggie (8 October 1933 – 15 July 2005) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand. Playing career Haggie played at wing and fullback and represented Auckland. In 1953 the touring American All Stars arrived in New Zealand. Short on players after a long tour of Australia, Haggie was one of the replacements called in to join the squad.Sky Rugby League Annual '98 ''New Zealand Rugby League'', 1998 Haggie played for the New Zealand Māori in 1955, being part of the side that defeated the touring French squad 28-20. He was also part of the Auckland side that defeated France 17-15.Coffey and Wood ''The Kiwis: 100 Years of International Rugby League'' Haggie was then selected for the New Zealand national rugby league team 1955–56 tour of Great Britain and France. He played in one test against Great Britain and all three tests against France. In 1958, Haggie was part of the Otahuhu Leopards side that played in the first ever Auckland Rug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland Rugby League Team
The Auckland rugby league team is the team which traditionally represents all of the clubs which play in the Auckland Rugby League competition. As well as a senior men's team there are also Auckland representative teams throughout the various age groups such as under 15s, under 17s, under 19s and under 21s. Under the new zone scheme introduced in 2010 the Auckland team represents the North Shore, East Auckland and West Auckland, while South Auckland is represented by the Counties Manukau rugby league team. The zone team is named the Akarana Falcons. History Auckland played its first game on 24 August 1908 when they took on Wellington at Victoria Park, Auckland in the first provincial game of rugby league in New Zealand. The Auckland Rugby League had not yet been formed so the side was not an official one as such.John Haynes ''From All Blacks to All Golds: Rugby League's Pioneers'', Christchurch, Ryan and Haynes, 1996. Auckland had played against several touring teams over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
