Tony Coll
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| Full name | Anthony Peter Coll | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 87 kg (13 st 10 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Second-row | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anthony Peter "Tony" Coll[1] is a New Zealand former rugby league player and coach who represented his country in three World Cups.
Playing career
A West Coast representative, Coll played in 65 games (including 30 tests) for the New Zealand Kiwis including three world cups. Coll trialled for the 1971 Kiwis unsuccessfully, however he was selected the following year.[2] He was the Kiwis captain at the 1977 World Cup.
Coll also had a brief spell in the Canterbury Rugby League competition, playing with Marist-Western Suburbs and representing Canterbury.[3]
Later years
Coll coached the West Coast in 1986 and 1987.
He was made a New Zealand Rugby League "Legends of League" in 2007.[2]
He currently runs a sports store in Greymouth.[4] In 2011 Coll was elected to the Grey District Council in a by-election.[5]
References
- ^ COLL, Anthony Peter 1972 - 82 - Kiwi #503 nzleague.co.nz
- ^ a b Three more greats inducted into New Zealand's Legends of League rleague.com, 3 June 2007
- ^ Coffey, John. Canterbury XIII, Christchurch, 1987.
- ^ Sports World: Coll's Sportsworld & Avanti Pro Cycles
- ^ In Touch nzrl.co.nz, August 2011. p.19.
- Living people
- New Zealand rugby league players
- New Zealand national rugby league team players
- West Coast rugby league team players
- South Island rugby league team players
- West Coast rugby league team coaches
- New Zealand rugby league coaches
- New Zealand national rugby league team captains
- Marist-Western Suburbs players
- Canterbury rugby league team players
- Marist (West Coast) players
- Local political office-holders in New Zealand
- New Zealand sportsperson-politicians