Herbert Errol Cook (24 December 1923 – 19 December 1986) was a New Zealand

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

and professional

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 played in the 1940s and 1950s, and

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ed rugby league in the 1950s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force "Kiwis", and representative level rugby league (RL) for

Other Nationalities The Other Nationalities rugby league team are a rugby league representative team that usually consists of non-English players. They have also played under the name The Exiles and more recently Combined Nations All Stars. They competed in the first ...

, and at club level for

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Keighley Keighley ( ) is a market town and a civil parish in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is the second largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford. Keighley is north-west of Bradford city centre, north-west of Bi ...

and

Dewsbury Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudder ...

, as a goal-kicking , and coached club level rugby league (RL) for

and

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The Rock n Roll 50s – Keighley to Cougars
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The 50s Part 2 – Keighley to Cougars
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Bert 1923 births 1986 deaths People from Wairoa Dewsbury Rams coaches Dewsbury Rams players Keighley Cougars coaches Keighley Cougars players Leeds Rhinos players New Zealand rugby league coaches New Zealand rugby league players New Zealand rugby union players Other Nationalities rugby league team players Rugby league fullbacks New Zealand military personnel of World War II Rugby union players from the Hawke's Bay Region Rugby league players from Hawke's Bay Region New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in England