John Anderson (rugby league)
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Born | Scotland | 19 October 1913|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 17 September 1984 | (aged 70)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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John Anderson (19 October 1913 – 17 September 1984) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand.[2]
Playing career
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/NZ_Team_1938.png/220px-NZ_Team_1938.png)
Anderson originally played for Blackball in the West Coast Rugby League competition. He represented the West Coast, Canterbury and the South Island.
Auckland and Marist
[edit]In 1936 Anderson moved to Auckland, joining the Marist Old Boys club and becoming the club captain.[3] With Marist he won the 1938 Fox Memorial championship and the Roope Rooster in 1937 and 1939. Anderson also represented Auckland and the North Island.[4]
In 1938 Anderson toured Australia with the New Zealand team. No test matches were played on the tour however Anderson was the second highest point scorer with 6 tries and 27 goals.[5]
Anderson was one of the most prolific point scorers in Auckland rugby league history.
Army rugby
[edit]During the war years Anderson played rugby for an Army side.
Point Chevalier
[edit]In 1944 Anderson transferred to the Point Chevalier club during the second round of the competition not having played in the league for 3 seasons. He scored a try in a loss to Ponsonby on 29 July and then soon after requested a transfer back to his old Marist club.
References
[edit]- ^ "Papers Past". Retrieved 29 August 2021.
- ^ a b "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ Coffey, John and Bernie Wood Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009, 2009. ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4.
- ^ ANDERSON, John (1938) Archived 7 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine nzleague.co.nz
- ^ Bruce Montgomerie Those Who Played, Montgomerie Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0646434071. p.18.
- 1913 births
- 1984 deaths
- Auckland rugby league team players
- Blackball players
- Canterbury rugby league team players
- Marist Saints players
- Point Chevalier Pirates players
- New Zealand national rugby league team players
- New Zealand rugby league players
- North Island rugby league team players
- Rugby league locks
- South Island rugby league team players
- West Coast rugby league team players
- New Zealand rugby league biography stubs