Graham Delamore | |
Full Name: | Graham Wallace Delamore |
Birth Date: | 3 April 1920 |
Birth Place: | Thames, New Zealand |
Death Place: | North Shore, New Zealand |
Height: | 1.68 m |
Weight: | 69 kg |
Occupation: | School teacher |
School: | Thames High School |
Position: | Five-eighth |
Repyears1: | 1949 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Graham Wallace Delamore (3 April 1920 — 2 May 2008) was a New Zealand rugby union international.[1]
Born in Thames, Delamore attended Thames High School and was a physical training instructor with the RNZAF in World War II. During the war, he had stints at both the Hawke's Bay and Manawatu representative teams.[2]
Delamore, a diminutive five-eighth, began representing Wellington in 1948 and was the provincial side's only player named in the All Blacks squad for the 1949 tour of South Africa.[3] He was capped as a first five-eighth in the 4th Test in Port Elizabeth and featured in a total of nine matches across the tour.[2]
A school teacher by profession, Delamore had a long association with Takapuna Grammar School, where he was 1st XV coach from 1950 to 1961. He later became deputy principal of the school.[2]
Delamore also played cricket for Hutt Valley in the Hawke Cup.[2]