David Evans (rugby)
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Personal information | ||||||
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Full name | David Alexander Evans | |||||
Nickname | Dave | |||||
Born | Napier, New Zealand |
4 October 1886|||||
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Napier, New Zealand |
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Playing information | ||||||
Rugby union | ||||||
Position | Lock, Flanker | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
Napier RFC | ||||||
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1906–10 | Hawke's Bay | 19 | ||||
1910 | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rugby league | ||||||
Position | Second-row | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
Unknown (HBRL) | ||||||
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1911–19?? | Hawke's Bay | |||||
1912 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
David "Dave" Alexander Evans (4 October 1886 – 12 October 1940) was a New Zealand dual-code international who represented his country in both rugby union and rugby league.
Playing career
Rugby union
Evans began his career playing rugby union and represented Hawke's Bay 19 times from 1906.[1] He made the 1910 New Zealand tour of Australia and played in the 0–11 Test defeat by Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 27 June 1910, becoming the Hawke's Bay's third representative.[2]
Rugby league
While in Australia Evans had been impressed by the rugby league code and in 1911 he was instrumental in helping persuade three Hawke's Bay clubs—Clive, Ahuriri and Kia Toa—to switch en masse to rugby league.[1] A Hawke's Bay representative, he represented New Zealand on the 1912 tour of Australia, where no test matches were played.[3]
References
- Use New Zealand English from October 2015
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- 1886 births
- 1940 deaths
- Dual-code rugby internationals
- Hawke's Bay rugby league team players
- Hawke's Bay Magpies players
- New Zealand international rugby union players
- New Zealand national rugby league team players
- New Zealand rugby league players
- New Zealand rugby union players
- Sportspeople from Napier, New Zealand
- Rugby league second-rows
- Rugby union flankers
- Rugby union locks