Joseph Lavery
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| Full name | Joseph Lavery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 August 1880 Centre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joseph Aloysius Lavery1907-1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain.
Early years
Lavery worked on for the New Zealand Railways Department.[2]
Rugby football
Lavery started his career playing for Temuka in 1901 before moving to Christchurch Albion where he was a club mate of
Canterbury between 1902 and 1904 and played for the South Island in 1903.[2]
Rugby league
Lavery joined the
New Zealand Rugby Union. However, he was not in the touring parties[3] first selection and played mostly in mid-week games, scoring two tries. Despite this Lavery played in one test match for New Zealand
.
After the tour Lavery opted to stay in Britain and signed with first
Leigh, and then Salford in 1910, and was also the first ever overseas player to play for either club.[6][7]
By 1913 he had returned to New Zealand and played for Linwood in the first season of the Canterbury Rugby League competition.[8] He represented Canterbury in 1915.[8]
Later years
Lavery fought in World War I, and in May 1918 the Linwood club minutes recorded a "vote of sympathy" for Lavery, "who had returned wounded".[8]
References
- ^ LAVERY, Joseph Aloysius 1907 - 08 - Kiwi #11 Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine nzleague.co.nz
- ^ ISBN 0-473-03864-1
- ^ "The All Golds". Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
- ^ "Joe Lavery". Saints Heritage Society. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
- ^ Champions reveal new look away kit Archived 24 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine therhinos.co.uk, 21 January 2013
- ^ The Story So Far - 110 Years At The Willows Archived 6 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine reds.co.uk
- ^ Club History Archived 5 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine leighcenturions.com
- ^ a b c Coffey, John. Canterbury XIII, Christchurch, 1987