Tony Coll

Tony Coll
Personal information
Full name Anthony Peter Coll
Weight 87 kg (13 st 10 lb)
Playing information
Position second-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1970 Marist-Western Suburbs (CRL)
Marist (WCRL) 227
Total 227 0 0 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1970 Canterbury 1
West Coast 58
South Island
1972–1982 New Zealand 30 4 1 0 14
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
Marist (WCRL)
Representative
Years Team Gms W D L W%
West Coast
Source: RLP

Anthony Peter "Tony" Coll[1] is a New Zealand former rugby league player and coach who represented his country in three World Cups.

Playing career

A West Coast representative, Coll played in 65 games (including 30 tests) for the New Zealand Kiwis including three world cups. Coll trialled for the 1971 Kiwis unsuccessfully, however he was selected the following year.[2] He was the Kiwis captain at the 1977 World Cup.

Coll also had a brief spell in the Canterbury Rugby League competition, playing with Marist-Western Suburbs and representing Canterbury.[3]

Later years

Coll coached the West Coast in 1986 and 1987.

He was made a New Zealand Rugby League "Legends of League" in 2007.[2]

He currently runs a sports store in Greymouth.[4] In 2011 Coll was elected to the Grey District Council in a by-election.[5]

References

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