Noel Bowden
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Birth name | Noel James Gordon Bowden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 19 March 1926 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Whangarei, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 9 October 2009 | (aged 83)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Albany, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Auckland Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Schoolteacher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Noel James Gordon Bowden (19 March 1926 – 9 October 2009) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A full-back, Bowden represented Template:Rut Auckland, Template:Rut Waikato, and Template:Rut Taranaki at a provincial level. He played one match for the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, a test against the touring Australian team in 1952, in which he kicked one penalty goal.[1]
References
- ^ Ponsonby District RFC. "Noel Bowden". New Zealand Rugby Union. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
Categories:
- 1926 births
- 2009 deaths
- Sportspeople from Whangarei
- People educated at Auckland Grammar School
- New Zealand rugby union players
- New Zealand international rugby union players
- Auckland rugby union players
- Waikato Rugby Union players
- Taranaki rugby union players
- Rugby union fullbacks
- New Zealand rugby union biography stubs