| 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 | Waimangu, New Zealand | ||
| School | St Stephen's College | ||
| Rugby union career | |||
| Playing career | |||
| Position | Three-quarter | ||
| New Zealand No. | 17 | ||
| Amateur clubs | |||
| Years | Club / team | ||
| Ponsonby Tauranga |
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| correct as of 2007-04-22. | |||
| Provincial/State sides | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| Auckland | |||
| correct as of 2007-04-22. | |||
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1884 1888-1889 |
All Blacks New Zealand Natives |
7 | (12) |
| correct as of 2007-04-22. | |||
Joe Warbrick (January 1862 – 30 August 1903), born Joseph Astbury Warbrick, 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 New Zealand 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. In 2008, Warbrick and the 1888–1889 New Zealand Natives were inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame.[1]
Warbrick was killed by an eruption of the Waimangu Geyser in 1903.