Mannetjies Gericke
| Full name | Frederick Wilhelm Gericke | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 8 June 1933 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kimberley, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 22 October 2010 (aged 77) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Roodepoort, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||
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Frederick Wilhelm Gericke (8 June 1933 – 22 October 2010) was a South African rugby union international.
Born in Kimberley, Gericke was a product of Diamantveld High School and vice-captained the Junior Springboks on their 1959 tour of South America.[1] He gained a Springboks cap in 1960 as a scrum-half against Scotland at Boet Erasmus Stadium, where he scored a try and set up two more for flanker Hugo van Zyl.[2] His provincial rugby was played with Griquas, Transvaal and Western Transvaal. He toured Australia in 1963 with the national rugby league team.[3] Gericke died on 22 October 2010, at the age of 77.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Two ex Boks die". TimesLIVE. 25 October 2010.
- ^ Richards, Huw (23 April 2010). "A forgotten milestone". ESPNscrum.
- ^ "Mayor Advocates New Deal For League", The Rugby League News, vol. 44, no. 18 (13-14 July 1963), NSWFL, p. 10
External links
[edit]- Mannetjies Gericke at ESPNscrum
Categories:
- 1933 births
- 2010 deaths
- South African rugby union players
- South Africa international rugby union players
- South Africa national rugby league team players
- Rugby union players from Kimberley, Northern Cape
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- Griquas (rugby union) players
- Golden Lions players
- Leopards (rugby union) players