Walter Milne (rugby league)
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Walter Henry Milne | |||||
| Born | 5 August 1884 New Zealand | |||||
| Died | 19 July 1969 (aged 84) New Zealand | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Prop | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1919–≥19 | Ponsonby (ARL) | |||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1911–≥11 | Southland | |||||
| 1911 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Walter Henry Milne (5 August 1884 – 19 July 1968) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer of the 1910s, playing at representative level for New Zealand (#58), and Southland, and at club level for Ponsonby, as a Prop, i.e. number 8 or 10, during the era of contested scrums.[1][2][3]
Rugby football career
Milne originally played rugby union, playing for the Britannia club in Southland. In 1908 he was involved in the first club match of rugby league in New Zealand. The match was played after both sides had been suspended by the Southland Rugby Union for "striking" after they had refused to go back onto the field after halftime due to the blizzard conditions.[4] Milne escaped suspension and went on to represent Wanganui, the North Island and Taranaki.
He switched codes to rugby league in 1911 and represented New Zealand on the 1911 tour of Australia.[4]
References
- ↑ "Roll of Honour at nzrl.co.nz". nzrl.co.nz. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ "Past Kiwis → M at nzrl.co.nz". nzrl.co.nz. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ "Profile at nzleague.co.nz". nzleague.co.nz. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- 1 2 John Coffey and Bernie Wood, The Kiwis: 100 Years of International Rugby League, Hodder Moa, Auckland, 2007, p. 44.