Bruce Gemmell
Appearance
Birth name | Bruce McLeod Gemmell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 12 May 1950 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Auckland Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruce McLeod Gemmell (born 18 May 1950) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School where he was a member of the 1st XV between 1966 and 1968. A halfback, Gemmell represented Auckland at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, on their 1974 tour of Australia and Fiji. He played six matches on that tour including two internationals. Gemmell retired from rugby in 1978 because of an ongoing head injury.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Knight, Lindsay. "Bruce Gemmell". New Zealand Rugby Union. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
Categories:
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Rugby union players from Auckland
- People educated at Auckland Grammar School
- New Zealand rugby union players
- New Zealand international rugby union players
- Auckland rugby union players
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- 20th-century New Zealand sportspeople
- New Zealand rugby union biography, 1950s birth stubs