Gordon Hooker - Mashpedia Real-time Encyclopedia

Gordon Hooker
Personal information
Born	New Zealand
Playing information
Position	Wing
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1908–19??	Taranaki
1909	New Zealand	2	0	0	0	0
1910	Queensland

Gordon Hooker was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented his country in 1909.

Playing career [edit]

Hooker represented Taranaki in 1908 and was selected to tour Australia for New Zealand in 1909, where he played in two Test matches.^[1]

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.^[2]

In the 1930's Hooker helped re-establish rugby league in Taranaki.^[2]

Legacy [edit]

In 2008 he was named in the Taranaki Rugby League Team of the Century.^[3]

References [edit]

^ HOOKER, Gordon - 1909 nzleague.co.nz
^ ^a ^b John Coffey and Bernie Wood, The Kiwis: 100 Years of International Rugby League, Hodder Moa, Auckland, 2007, p. 37.
^ "Dream team of century is named". Taranaki Daily News. 14 October 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2011.

v t e The Taranaki Rugby League Team of the Century (1908–2008)

1. Dave Watson; 2. Babe Hooker; 3. Ron McKay; 4. Willie Talau; 5. Ernest Buckland; 6. Tony Kemp; 7. Issac Luke; 8. Bruce Gall; 9. Howie Tamati; 10. Wille Southorn; 11. Graeme West; 12. Adam Lile; 13. Barry Harvey. Bench: 14. Jack McLeod; 15. Fred White; 16. Lance Moir; 17. Jim Parker; 18. Charles Hunt. Coach: Alan Marshall. Referee: Graham Church.

Persondata
Name	Hooker, Gordon
Alternative names
Short description	Rugby player
Date of birth
Place of birth	New Zealand
Date of death
Place of death