Rod Ketels
Appearance
Birth name | Rodney Clive Ketels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 11 November 1954 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Papakura, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 115 kg (254 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Pukekohe High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rodney Clive Ketels (born 11 November 1954) Ketels represented counties at provincial level on 173 occasions from 1974 to 1987 3rd on the all-time list of games played for the union Ketels was a member of the champion Counties NPC team in 1979. Ketels was selected for the All Blacks for the 1978 UK grand slam tour but was unable to travel due to injury. He went on to make 16 appearances for the All Blacks and played a total of 212 first class matches.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Knight, Lindsay. "Rod Ketels". New Zealand Rugby Union. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
Categories:
- 1954 births
- Living people
- New Zealand rugby union players
- New Zealand international rugby union players
- Counties Manukau rugby union players
- Rugby union props
- People from Papakura
- People educated at Pukekohe High School
- Rugby union players from Auckland
- 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
- New Zealand rugby union biography, 1950s birth stubs