Alfred Jackson (rugby league)
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Auckland, New Zealand
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| Full name | Alfred Edward Jackson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | c.1876 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 October 1958 (aged 81–82) Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Halfback, Five-eighth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alfred Edward "Alf" Jackson[1] was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s.
Jackson played either as a five-eighth or halfback. He represented the North Shore rugby league club and played for Auckland. He retired in the 1913 season but came out of retirement to help the side in 1916 during the war years.
On 7 August 1909, Jackson played for Auckland against Taranaki.[2] He played in the game for Auckland against the touring Lions in 1910.[3] He was then part of the 1910 Auckland side that toured the country between 20 September and 13 October, playing matches in Wanganui, Bluff, Invercargill, Dunedin, Napier and Dannevirke.
Jackson played for New Zealand during the 1913 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia, a tour where no test matches were played.
