Ernie Wiggs
Personal information | ||||||
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Full name | Ernest David Wiggs | |||||
Born | 1940/1941 New Zealand |
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Died | (aged 73) | |||||
Playing information | ||||||
Position | Wing, Prop, Lock | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
Otahuhu Leopards | ||||||
Mount Albert Lions | ||||||
Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
Auckland | ||||||
1964–1968 | New Zealand | 5 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 43 |
Coaching information | ||||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
Mangere East Hawks | ||||||
Otahuhu Leopards | ||||||
Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Source: RLP |
Ernest David "Ernie" Wiggs (1940/1941 – 10 October 2014) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented his country in the 1968 World Cup.
Playing career
Wiggs played for Otahuhu in the Auckland Rugby League competition. An Auckland representative, Wiggs was selected for New Zealand in 1964 for a Test against France at Prop. He was then selected to play Great Britain at Lock in 1966 before being included in the 1968 World Cup squad as a Winger. Wiggs also won the New Zealand Rugby League's player of the year award that year.[1]
Between 1967 and 1970 he won the Painter Rosebowl Trophy four times as the leading points scorer in the Auckland Rugby League competition.[2] Wiggs was also part of the 1969 Auckland side that defeated Australia 15-14.[3] Wiggs again won the trophy in 1973, however by then he was playing for the Mount Albert Lions.
Wiggs later coached both the Otahuhu Leopards and the Mangere East Hawks.[2] In 1978 the Wiggs-coached Hawks made the Fox Memorial grand final, losing to Otahuhu.[4]
Wiggs died in 2014,[5] and he was buried at Waikumete Cemetery.[6]
References
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- ↑ Sky Rugby League Annual '98 New Zealand Rugby League, 1998
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Otahuhu Rovers Rugby League Football and Sports Club Inc aucklandleague.co.nz
- ↑ Coffey, John and Bernie Wood. Auckland: 100 Years Of Rugby League 1909-2009 Huia Publishing, 2009.
- ↑ The Hawks: 40 years of Rugby League, Suburban Newspapers Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-473-09744-3. p.12.
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- Burials at Waikumete Cemetery