Herbert Pearce
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Herbert John Pearce | |||||
| Born | New Zealand | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Centre | |||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| Otago | ||||||
| 1930 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Herbert John Pearce was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented his country.
After being born, raised and educated in Christchurch and playing rugby league for the Marist Club and Canterbury in 1926-27, he moved south to Dunedin and joined the Christian Brothers Rugby League Club.
Playing career
Considered at the time to be one of the fastest league wingers in the country, Pearce represented Otago in 1928-29 before gaining national selection in 1930, when the New Zealand side toured Australia, playing in two matches against New South Wales. Pearce also represented the South Island in 1930. He later tragically drowned in Foveaux Strait, aged just 46, in 1955. He is buried at Bluff Cemetery.