Ernie Buckland
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| Full name | Ernest Albert Buckland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 July 1887 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 January 1945 (aged 57) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing, Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ernest Buckland (1887–1945)[2] was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand between 1909 and 1911.
Playing career
[edit | edit source]Buckland played for Taranaki in their first ever game of rugby league in 1908.[3] In 1909 he first played for New Zealand, being selected as part of the squad that toured Australia.
In 1910 Buckland played in the Test match against the touring Great Britain Lions side, scoring a try. He then toured Australia the following year.
Buckland later moved to Wellington, playing for the Wellington rugby league team in 1912.[4]
He was named in the Taranaki Rugby League's team of the century in 2008.[5]
References
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- ^ BUCKLAND, ERNEST 1909 - 11 - KIWI #30 Archived 2012-05-01 at the Wayback Machine nzleague.co.nz
- ^ Coffey, John and Bernie Wood Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009, 2009. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- ^ Coffey, John. Canterbury XIII, Christchurch, 1987.
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