Ernie Wiggs
Ernest David "Ernie" Wiggs (1940/1941 – 10 October 2014) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand in the 1968 World Cup.
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| Full name | Ernest David Wiggs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1940/1941 New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | (aged 73) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing, Prop, Lock | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.[2]
Between 1967 and 1970 he won the Painter Rosebowl Trophy four times as the leading points scorer in the Auckland Rugby League competition.[3] Wiggs was also part of the 1969 Auckland side that defeated Australia 15–14.[4] 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.[3] In 1978 the Wiggs-coached Hawks made the Fox Memorial grand final, losing to Otahuhu.[5]
Wiggs died in 2014,[6] and he was buried at Waikumete Cemetery.[7]
References
- ^ "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ Sky Rugby League Annual '98 New Zealand Rugby League, 1998
- ^ a b Otahuhu Rovers Rugby League Football and Sports Club Inc June 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine aucklandleague.co.nz
- ^ Coffey, John and Bernie Wood. Auckland: 100 Years Of Rugby League 1909-2009 2010-06-05 at the Wayback Machine Huia Publishing, 2009.
- ^ The Hawks: 40 years of Rugby League, Suburban Newspapers Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-473-09744-3. p.12.
- ^ "Ernie Wiggs obituary". New Zealand Herald. 15 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ . Auckland Council. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2014.