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| Full name | Hohepa Joe Rātima | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight | 16 st (100 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Prop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hohepa Joe Rātima (birth unknown) is a New Zealand rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played representative rugby league (RL) for New Zealand.
Rugby union career
Rātima is from Ngāti Maniapoto and originally played rugby union, representing King Country Rugby Union. He also represented New Zealand Māori.
Rugby league career
He then switched to rugby league, representing Auckland. In 1956 he was part of the Auckland sides that defeated Great Britain 5–4 in 1954 and France 17–15 in 1955.
In 1956 he toured Australia as part of the New Zealand Māori rugby league team.
He was part of the Ponsonby team that won the Auckland Rugby League title in 1958.
He represented New Zealand, playing in two tests against Great Britain in 1958 and then touring Australia in 1959.
Later years
Rātima was later the vice president of the Māori Rugby League organisation.
References
- June 16, 1959 The Sydney Morning Herald, Page 16
- ^ "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ Hohepa Joe Ratima
- Coffey, John and Bernie Wood Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909–2009, 2009. ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4.
- 100 Years: Māori Rugby League, 1908–2008 John Oliver Coffey, Bernie Wood p.148
- Lion Red Rugby League Annual 1990 New Zealand Rugby League, 1990. p.72
- Auckland rugby league team players
- King Country rugby union players
- Living people
- Māori All Blacks players
- New Zealand Māori rugby league team players
- New Zealand national rugby league team players
- New Zealand rugby league players
- New Zealand rugby union players
- Ngāti Maniapoto people
- Ponsonby Ponies players
- Rugby league props