Alfred Kivell | |
Birth Name: | Alfred Louis Kivell |
Birth Date: | 12 April 1897 |
Death Place: | Stratford, New Zealand |
Ru Position: | Loose forward |
Height: | 1.750NaN0 |
Weight: | 83kg (183lb) |
Repyears1: | 1929 |
Repcaps1: | 2 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Ru Provinceyears1: | 1920–30 |
Ru Provinceapps1: | 64 |
School: | Stratford High School |
Alfred Louis Kivell (12 April 1897 – 1 September 1987) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A loose forward, Kivell represented at a provincial level between 1920 and 1930. He was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, on their 1929 tour of Australia, playing in five matches including two internationals.[1]
Sources vary as to Kivell's place of birth: either Tararu, near Thames;[1] or Karangahake, near Paeroa.[2] Kivell enlisted as a rifleman in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in March 1917, and served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in France in the last months of World War I.[2] He died on 1 September 1987.[2]