Gordon Hooker
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29 May 1887 New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
6 December 1967 (aged 80) New Plymouth, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gordon Hooker (29 May 1887 – 6 December 1967) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented his country in 1909.
Playing career
Hooker represented Taranaki in 1908 and was selected to tour Australia for New Zealand in 1909, where he played in two Test matches.[1]
He represented Queensland against the 1910 Great Britain Lions before returning to New Zealand and playing for Taranaki against the 1914 Lions. He played until he was 36.[2]
In the 1930s Hooker helped re-establish rugby league in Taranaki.[2] He died in 1967 and his ashes were buried at Te Henui Cemetery.[3]
Legacy
In 2008 he was named in the Taranaki Rugby League Team of the Century.[4]
References
- ↑ HOOKER, Gordon - 1909 nzleague.co.nz
- 1 2 John Coffey and Bernie Wood, The Kiwis: 100 Years of International Rugby League, Hodder Moa, Auckland, 2007, p. 37.
- ↑ "Cemetery search". New Plymouth District Council. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ↑ "Dream team of century is named". Taranaki Daily News. 14 October 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
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