Len Eriksen
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| Full name | Leonard Alfred Eriksen[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 May 1925 Auckland Region, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 July 2000 (aged 75) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Scrum-half | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Len Eriksen is a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand in the 1954 World Cup.
Playing career
[edit | edit source]A Ponsonby player in the Auckland Rugby League competition. Eriksen was part of the Auckland side that defeated Great Britain 5-4 at Carlaw Park. He was selected for the New Zealand national rugby league team in 1954 and played in three test matches that year, including at the 1954 World Cup.[citation needed]
In 1958 he was part of the Ponsonby side that won the first ever Auckland grand final, defeating Otahuhu 16-7.[3]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ ERIKSEN, Leonard Alfred - 1954 Archived 2012-04-05 at the Wayback Machine nzleague.co.nz
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- ^ 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)..