Peter Jones (rugby player, 1932)

Peter Jones

Player information
Full name	Peter Frederick Hilton Jones
birthday	March 24, 1932
place of birth	Kaitaia , New Zealand
date of death	June 7, 1994
Place of death	Waipapakauri , New Zealand
size	188 cm
Nickname	Kūmara , tiger
society
society	deceased
position	Winger number eight
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
	Awanui RFC
province
province	deceased
position	Winger number eight
Provinces as active
Years	province	Games (points)
1950-1961	North Auckland RFU	79
National team
Years	National team	Games (points)
1954-1960	New Zealand	11 (6)
As of August 12, 2010

Peter Frederick Hilton Jones (born March 24, 1932 in Kaitaia , New Zealand , † June 7, 1994 in Waipapakauri , New Zealand) was a New Zealand rugby union player in the position of winger and number eight .

Jones went to school at Kaitaia College, where he played in its first rugby selection in 1946 and 1947. After graduating from school, he became a full-time fisherman . In 1950 he made his debut at the age of eighteen in the national team of the North Auckland Rugby Football Union . In the same year he played for his province against the British and Irish Lions, who are touring New Zealand, and won with her the Ranfurly Shield against South Canterbury . As a result, Jones was able to successfully defend the Shield twice with North Auckland before losing it to Waikato in 1951 . In later years he regularly led his province as a team captain.

In 1953 he was appointed to the squad of the New Zealand national team ( All Blacks ) for their European tour in 1953/54 for the first time . He made his international debut on January 30, 1954 against England . The All Blacks won this game 5-0. Before that, he only played on the tour against British and Irish club and various national teams. Due to the strong competition, he completed his only other international match on the tour against Scotland .

In 1955 he won the Bledisloe Cup against Australia ( Wallabies ) with the All Blacks . Jones' greatest success in rugby, however, was winning the international series against the South African national team ( Springboks ) touring New Zealand in 1956. Due to injury problems, he was only used in the last two of the four internationals, after the All Blacks had previously won the first game and that second draw ended. He was a celebrated folk hero when he in the fourth and last international match of the tour by a 30-meter sprint after an alley to try put that decided the international game series final for the All Blacks. It was the first time that South Africa lost such a series in rugby to another country.

Immediately after the game, Jones caused a minor scandal in prudish New Zealand in the 1950s, as he bluntly answered a radio reporter live when asked how he felt now:

I'm absolutely buggered.

(I'm totally screwed.)

Despite the enormous fame he achieved through his attempt against the Springboks and winning the series, he was never really able to assert himself in the national team due to injury. In 1957, he was unable to complete a single international match. A year later he played for all three international matches against Australia and defended the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand. In 1959 he played in the first international match against the British and Irish Lions, who were touring New Zealand, but injured himself so badly that he could no longer participate properly in the course of the game. At that time, substitutions were prohibited even after serious injuries. This injury also ended the rest of the international series for him. During the All Blacks tour in South Africa in 1960, Jones had to contend with injury concerns again. He played for the All Blacks only in one international match against the Springboks, which the New Zealanders also lost with 0:13. In 1961 he resigned from active rugby. He then became involved in the board of the North Auckland RFU.

Web links

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