Len Eriksen
New Zealand rugby league footballer
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Full name | Leonard Alfred Eriksen[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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
- ^ ERIKSEN, Leonard Alfred - 1954 Archived 2012-04-05 at the Wayback Machine nzleague.co.nz
- ^ "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018. [permanent dead link]
- ^ Coffey, John and Bernie Wood Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009, 2009. ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4.
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New Zealand squad – 1954 Rugby League World Cup
- Cyril Eastlake (c)
- Alister Atkinson (vc)
- Doug Anderson
- Jimmy Edwards
- Neville Denton
- Jim Austin
- Ron McKay
- Bill Sorensen
- George Menzies
- Len Eriksen
- Lory Blanchard
- John Bond
- Cliff Johnson
- Bill McLennan
- Jock Butterfield
- George McDonald
- John Yates
- Ian Grey
- Coach: Jim Amos