Rugby player
| Full name | Frederick Wilhelm Gericke | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1933-06-08)8 June 1933 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kimberley, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 22 October 2010(2010-10-22) (aged 77) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Roodepoort, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||
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Frederick Wilhelm Gericke (8 June 1933 – 22 October 2010) was a South African rugby union international.
Born in Kimberley, Gericke was a product of Diamantveld High School and vice-captained the Junior Springboks on their 1959 tour of South America. He gained a Springboks cap in 1960 as a scrum-half against Scotland at Boet Erasmus Stadium, where he scored a try and set up two more for flanker Hugo van Zyl. His provincial rugby was played with Griquas, Transvaal and Western Transvaal. He toured Australia in 1963 with the national rugby league team. Gericke died on 22 October 2010, at the age of 77.
See also
References
- ^ "Two ex Boks die". TimesLIVE. 25 October 2010.
- Richards, Huw (23 April 2010). "A forgotten milestone". ESPNscrum.
- "Mayor Advocates New Deal For League", The Rugby League News, vol. 44, no. 18 (13-14 July 1963), NSWFL, p. 10
External links
- Mannetjies Gericke at ESPNscrum
- 1933 births
- 2010 deaths
- South African rugby union players
- South Africa international rugby union players
- South Africa national rugby league team players
- Rugby union players from Kimberley, Northern Cape
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- Griquas (rugby union) players
- Golden Lions players
- Leopards (rugby union) players