Gordon Hooker
{{Short description|New Zealand rugby league footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2018}}
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Gordon Hooker (29 May 1887 – 6 December 1967) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand in 1909.
Playing career
File:Taranaki RL team in 1914.jpgHooker represented Taranaki in 1908 and was selected to tour Australia for New Zealand in 1909, where he played in two Test matches.[http://www.nzleague.co.nz/kiwis/player_profile.php?letter=H&id=33 HOOKER, Gordon - 1909] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323135426/http://www.nzleague.co.nz/kiwis/player_profile.php?letter=H&id=33 |date=23 March 2012 }} nzleague.co.nz
He represented Queensland against the 1910 Great Britain Lions before returning to New Zealand and playing for Taranaki against the 1914 Lions. He played until he was 36.John Coffey and Bernie Wood, The Kiwis: 100 Years of International Rugby League, Hodder Moa, Auckland, 2007, p. 37. He refereed the August 5, 1933 match between Auckland and Taranaki at Western Park.{{cite news |title=Win for Auckland/Taranaki Defeated |page=12 |work=Auckland Star| volume=LXIV| issue=184 |date=1933-08-07 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19330807.2.152 |access-date=2020-08-25}}
In the 1930s Hooker helped re-establish rugby league in Taranaki. He died in 1967 and his ashes were buried at Te Henui Cemetery.{{cite web|url=http://www.newplymouthnz.com/Templates/Custom/Cemetery.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID=%7bE846123E-1337-425D-8CD5-A3BE8E011145%7d&NRORIGINALURL=%2fCouncilAtoZ%2fCemeteriesAndCrematorium%2fCemeterySearch%2ehtm&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest|title=Cemetery search|date=|website=|publisher=New Plymouth District Council|accessdate=11 April 2015}}
Legacy
References
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{{Taranaki Rugby League Team of the Century}}
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Category:20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
Category:Burials at Te Henui Cemetery
Category:New Zealand national rugby league team players
Category:New Zealand rugby league players
Category:Queensland rugby league team players