Joe Warbrick

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Joe Warbrick
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Personal information
Full name Joseph Astbury Warbrick
Date of birth 1862-01-01
Place of birth Rotorua, New Zealand
Date of death 1903-08-30
Place of death Waimungu, New Zealand
School St Stephen's College
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Three-quarter
All Black No. 17
Clubs
Ponsonby
Tauranga
Provincial/State sides    
Auckland
National team(s) Caps (points)
1884
1888-1889		 All Blacks
New Zealand Natives		 7
 (12)

Joe Warbrick (born Joseph Astbury Warbrick January 1862 — 30 August 1903) was a Maori New Zealand rugby union player born in Rotorua who played for the All Blacks in their 1884 tour to Australia, and the 1888-1889 New Zealand Native football team. Warbrick first played for the Ponsonby Club in Auckland in 1877 as a 15 year old. He was then picked for the Auckland team (the youngest player in New Zealand to play first grade rugby). In 1884 he was picked for the first ever New Zealand team, and played a total of seven games, scoring twelve points. In 1888 he was one of the major organisers of the privately funded Native Team that toured Australia, New Zealand and the British Isles. Although the team played 107 matches Warbrick did not play much due to injury. After the tour he virtually retired from all football. He was killed in 1903 when the Waimungu geyser erupted.

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Persondata
NAME Joe Warbrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joseph Astbury Warbrick
SHORT DESCRIPTION New Zealand rugby union player and administrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1862-01-01
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotorua, New Zealand
DATE OF DEATH 1903-08-30
PLACE OF DEATH Waimungu, New Zealand