Alan Wright | |
Full Name: | Alan Hercules Wright |
Birth Date: | 14 April 1914 |
Birth Place: | Upper Hutt, New Zealand |
Death Place: | Wellington, New Zealand |
Height: | 1.79 m |
Weight: | 89 kg |
School: | Wellington College |
Position: | Wing three-quarter |
Repyears1: | 1938 |
Alan Hercules Wright (14 April 1914 — 2 December 1990) was a New Zealand rugby union international.
Born in Upper Hutt, Wright was one of four sons of national rugby league captain Hercules Wright and a nephew of Wellington mayor Robert Wright. He attended Wellington College.[1]
Wright, known as "Bumper", was a sturdy wing three-quarter and began playing for Wellington in 1934. He gained an All Blacks call up for the 1938 tour of Australia as a replacement for John Dick, who was suffering from measles.[2] Despite scoring 11 tries from four uncapped matches, Wright was unable to force his way into the Test team.[3]