Bruce Gall
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| Full name | Bruce Percy Gall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruce Gall is a New Zealand rugby league player who represented his country.
Playing career
Gall played in the Taranaki Rugby League and represented Taranaki. In 1976 Gall played for the North Island against the touring Sydney Metropolitan side.[2]
In 1979 he played for the Central Districts side that won the Inter-Districts competition.[3]
He was selected for the New Zealand Kiwis on the 1980 tour of Great Britain and France. Gall did not play in a test match but did play in 8 games for the Kiwis, scoring 3 tries. In 1982 Gall played in three test matches for New Zealand against Australia and Papua New Guinea, scoring one try.[4]
Gall moved to Sydney in 1983, joining the Balmain Tigers in the NSWRL Premiership. He played in eleven matches over two seasons, scoring one try.[1]
Legacy
In 2008 he was named in the Taranaki Rugby League Team of the Century.[5]
References
- ^ a b Bruce Gall rugbyleagueproject.org
- ^ Air New Zealand Rugby League Annual 1977 New Zealand Rugby League, 1977. p.p.10-11.
- ^ Coffey, John and Bernie Wood Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009, 2009. ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4.
- ^ GALL, Bruce Percy - 1980, 1982[permanent dead link] nzleague.co.nz
- ^ "Dream team of century is named". Taranaki Daily News. 14 October 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2011.