Doug Bruce (rugby union)
Appearance
Birth name | Oliver Douglas Bruce | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 23 May 1947 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dunedin, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Ashburton High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Oliver Douglas Bruce (born 23 May 1947) is a former New Zealand rugby union player and coach. A first five-eighth, Bruce represented Mid Canterbury and Canterbury at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1974 to 1978. He played 41 matches for the All Blacks including 14 internationals. He went on to be the assistant coach of Canterbury between 1982 and 1985, and the coach of that side from 1987 to 1988.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Luxford, Bob. "Doug Bruce". New Zealand Rugby Union. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
Categories:
- 1947 births
- Living people
- Rugby union players from Dunedin
- People educated at Ashburton College
- New Zealand rugby union players
- New Zealand international rugby union players
- Mid Canterbury rugby union players
- Canterbury rugby union players
- Rugby union fly-halves
- New Zealand rugby union coaches
- 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
- New Zealand rugby union biography, 1940s birth stubs