Ernie Wiggs
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| Full name | Ernest David Wiggs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1940 or 1941 New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | (aged 73) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing, Prop, Lock | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ernest David "Ernie" Wiggs (1940 or 1941 – 10 October 2014) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand in the 1968 World Cup.
Playing career
Wiggs played for
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.[citation needed]
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 Archived 5 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine aucklandleague.co.nz
- ^ Coffey, John and Bernie Wood. Auckland: 100 Years Of Rugby League 1909-2009 Archived 2010-06-05 at the Wayback Machine Huia Publishing, 2009.
- ISBN 0-473-09744-3. p.12.
- ^ "Ernie Wiggs obituary". New Zealand Herald. 15 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ "Cemetery search details". Auckland Council. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2014.