Ernie Wiggs

Ernest David "Ernie" Wiggs (1940/1941 – 10 October 2014) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand in the 1968 World Cup.

Ernie Wiggs
Personal information
Full nameErnest David Wiggs
Born1940/1941
New Zealand
Died (aged 73)
Playing information
PositionWing, Prop, Lock
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
Otahuhu Leopards
Mount Albert Lions
Total 0 0 0 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
Auckland
1964–68 New Zealand 5 1 20 0 43
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
Mangere East Hawks
Otahuhu Leopards
Total 0 0 0 0
Source: [1]

Playing career

Wiggs played for Otahuhu in the Auckland Rugby League competition. An Auckland representative, Wiggs was selected for New Zealand in 1964 for a Test against France at Prop. He was then selected to play 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.

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
  1. "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  2. Sky Rugby League Annual '98 New Zealand Rugby League, 1998
  3. Otahuhu Rovers Rugby League Football and Sports Club Inc Archived June 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine aucklandleague.co.nz
  4. Coffey, John and Bernie Wood. Auckland: 100 Years Of Rugby League 1909-2009 Archived 2010-06-05 at the Wayback Machine Huia Publishing, 2009.
  5. The Hawks: 40 years of Rugby League, Suburban Newspapers Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-473-09744-3. p.12.
  6. "Ernie Wiggs obituary". New Zealand Herald. 15 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  7. "Cemetery search details". Auckland Council. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
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