Rex Pickering

Rex Pickering
Full name Ernest Arthur Rex Pickering
Date of birth (1936-11-23)23 November 1936
Place of birth Te Kuiti, New Zealand
Date of death 5 July 2016(2016-07-05) (aged 79)
Place of death Cambridge, New Zealand
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 95 kg (209 lb)
School Nelson College
Occupation(s) Finance manager[1]
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Loose forward
Lock
New Zealand No. 589
Provincial/State sides
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1955-65 Waikato 104
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1957–60 New Zealand 3 (0)

Ernest Arthur Rex Pickering (23 November 1936 – 5 July 2016) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A loose forward and lock, Pickering represented Waikato at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1957 to 1960. He played 21 matches for the All Blacks including three internationals.[2] He was described as the Sonny Bill Williams of his time.[3]

Pickering was educated at Nelson College from 1953 to 1954.[4] He died in Cambridge on 5 July 2016.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Waikato: Electoral District 76. Hamilton: Registrar of Electors. 1981. p. 81.
  2. ↑ Waikato RFU. "Rex Pickering". New Zealand Rugby Museum. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  3. ↑ AARON GOILE (6 July 2016). "Former All Black and Waikato rugby great Rex Pickering dies". Stuff. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition
  5. ↑ Goile, Aaron (7 July 2016). "Former All Black and Waikato rugby great Rex Pickering dies". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Ernest Pickering death notice". New Zealand Herald. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.


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