Graeme Higginson

Graeme Higginson

Player information
birthday	December 14, 1954
place of birth	Rangiora , New Zealand
size	193 cm
society
society	Career ended
position	Second row striker
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
	Culverden RFC Takapau RFC
province
province	Career ended
position	Second row striker
Provinces as active
Years	province	Games (points)
1976-1981 1982-1984 / 1988	Canterbury RFU Hawke's Bay RU	63 31
National team
Years	National team	Games (points)
1980-1983	New Zealand	6 (0)

Graeme Higginson (born December 14, 1954 in Rangiora , New Zealand ) is a retired New Zealand rugby union player on the position of second-line striker . His main job is as a farmer . He is also a son-in-law of the late former rugby union player Nelson Dalzell .

Higginson went to high school in Rangiora and joined the rugby club Culverden RFC. Because of his achievements, he played since 1976 in the New Zealand rugby championship for the national team of Canterbury RFU , with which he was 1977 champions. A year later he ran in the first of three games for the South Island national team .

After five seasons in provincial rugby, he was appointed to the squad of the New Zealand national team (All Blacks) for their tour in Australia and Fiji in 1980. On this tour, however, he did not complete an international match, but only appeared as a supplementary player against provincial and club teams. The game against the Fijian national team , as well as their return visit in the same year, were not counted as recognized internationals. Later that year he toured North America and Wales with the All Blacks . There he played his first international game against the Welsh national team on November 1, 1980 , which the All Blacks won 23-3 after the game against the US national team was also not counted as a recognized international game.

In 1981 he played in the first international match against the Scottish national team touring New Zealand and against the South African national team (Springboks) touring New Zealand . The victory with the All Blacks in the international game series over the Springboks was his greatest triumph in rugby with the championship in 1977, although he only played in the first international game, which the New Zealanders could decide for themselves. The All Blacks won two of their three internationals and lost one. In the further course of the year he could not accompany the national team on their tour in Romania and France due to an injury .

In 1982 he moved from Canterbury to Hawke's Bay RU as he took over a farm in Hawke's Bay . From 1982 to 1983 he was the captain of the team. In 1982 and 1983 he also successfully defended the Bledisloe Cup with the All Blacks against the Australian national team (Wallabies). In 1984 he actually retired from the great rugby, but returned again in 1988 for one season and won the Second Division of the National Provincial Championship (NPC) with Hawke's Bay .

Web links

• Profile on the side of the All Blacks