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| Full name | Ernest William Cloke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 April 1892 (1892-04-09) New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 September 1956 (1956-09-19) (aged 64) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ernest William "Bill" Cloke was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand.
Playing career
Bill Cloke began his career playing for Otahuhu United in 1916 playing 11 matches for their senior side. He played 2 further matches for them in the 1917 season before he transferred to the Newton Rangers after the Otahuhu senior side folded mid season due to a lack of players through illness, injury, and players leaving for the war effort. Cloke played for New Zealand on the 1919 tour of Australia, where no test matches were played.
On 24 July 1920 he played for Auckland against the touring Great Britain Lions. They won 24–16, becoming the first New Zealand team to defeat Great Britain on New Zealand soil.
Selector
Cloke later became a selector for Auckland in the 1940s.
References
- ^ "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- "NZLEAGUE.CO.NZ - Home". Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
- Coffey, John and Bernie Wood Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009, 2009. ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4.
- "League Team/Merger Scheme Not To Be Changed". Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 112. 14 May 1942. p. 3. Retrieved 18 April 2022.