Len Eriksen
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| Full name | Leonard Alfred Eriksen[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 May 1925 Auckland Region, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 July 2000 (aged 75) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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.
- ^ Coffey, John and Bernie Wood Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009, 2009. ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4.