Personal information
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Full name | Albert Phillip House | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1890 Buninyong, Victoria, Australia |
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Died | (aged 76) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information
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Rugby union
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Rugby league
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Position | Fullback, Centre, Stand-off | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Refereeing information
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Albert Phillip House (1890 – 29 May 1966) was a New Zealand rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s and 1910s, and rugby league referee of the 1910s and 1920s . He played representative level rugby union for Wellington, and representative level rugby league for New Zealand (#35), and Wellington, and at club level for Petone, as a Fullback, or Stand-off, i.e. number 1, or 6.
House originally played rugby union, representing Wellington.
In 1908 House switched to rugby league, playing for Wellington in the first provincial matches, against Auckland.
House won caps for New Zealand in the 1909 tour of Australia, playing Fullback, and scoring two conversions in New Zealand's 19–11 victory over Australia at Royal Agricultural Society Showground, Sydney on Saturday 12 June 1909, playing Fullback in the 5-10 defeat by Australia at Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Brisbane on Saturday 26 June 1909, and playing Stand-off (George Spencer playing Fullback) in the 5–25 defeat by Australia at Royal Agricultural Society Showground, Sydney on Saturday 3 July 1909.