Alfred Jackson (rugby league)
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| Full name | Alfred Edward Jackson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Halfback, Five-eighth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alfred Edward "Alf" Jackson[1] was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s.
Jackson played either as a five-eighth or halfback. He represented the North Shore rugby league club and played for Auckland. He retired in the 1913 season but came out of retirement to help the side in 1916 during the war years.
On 7 August 1909, Jackson played for Auckland against Taranaki.[2] He played in the game for Auckland against the touring Lions in 1910.[3] He was then part of the 1910 Auckland side that toured the country between 20 September and 13 October, playing matches in Wanganui, Bluff, Invercargill, Dunedin, Napier and Dannevirke.
Jackson played for New Zealand during the 1913 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia, a tour where no test matches were played.
References[edit]
- ^ "NZRL - Past Kiwis". www.nzrl.co.nz. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^ John Coffey; Bernie Wood (18 September 2009). Auckland, 100 Years of Rugby League, 1909-2009. ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4.
- ^ Ferguson, Shawn Dollin and Andrew. "Lions Tour 1910 Series - Game 13 - Rugby League Project". www.rugbyleagueproject.org. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
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