colin meads

Personal details

Full Name:

  • Colin Earl Meads

Lifetime:

  • 3 Jun 193620 Aug 2017
Biography

In 1999 Colin Meads was named as New Zealand's Player of the Century and the International Rugby Hall of Fame rated him ‘the most famous forward in world rugby throughout the 1960s’.

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Events In History

  • 3 June 1936
    Colin 'Pinetree' Meads born

    The legendary All Black lock was a physically tough, uncompromising player. Rugby writer Lindsay Knight described Colin Meads as New Zealand's equivalent of Australia's Sir Donald Bradman or American Babe Ruth as a sporting legend. Read more...

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