Joe Rātima

Joe Rātima

Personal information
Full name	Hohepa Joe Rātima
Born	New Zealand
Playing information
Weight	16 st (100 kg)[1]
Rugby union
Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P King Country New Zealand Māori
Rugby league
Position	Prop
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P Ponsonby Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P Auckland 1956 New Zealand Māori 1958–59 New Zealand 4 1 0 0 3
Source: [2]

Hohepa Joe Rātima (birth unknown) is a New Zealand rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played representative rugby league (RL) for New Zealand.^[2]

Rugby union career

Rātima is from Ngāti Maniapoto and originally played rugby union, representing King Country Rugby Union. He also represented New Zealand Māori.^[3]

Rugby league career

He then switched to rugby league, representing Auckland.^[3] In 1956 he was part of the Auckland sides that defeated Great Britain 5–4 in 1954 and France 17–15 in 1955.^[4]

In 1956 he toured Australia as part of the New Zealand Māori rugby league team.^[5]

He was part of the Ponsonby team that won the Auckland Rugby League title in 1958.^[6]

He represented New Zealand, playing in two tests against Great Britain in 1958 and then touring Australia in 1959.^[2]

Later years

Rātima was later the vice president of the Māori Rugby League organisation.^[3]

References

1. June 16, 1959 The Sydney Morning Herald, Page 16
2. "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
3. Hohepa Joe Ratima
4. Coffey, John and Bernie Wood Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909–2009, 2009. ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4.
5. 100 Years: Māori Rugby League, 1908–2008 John Oliver Coffey, Bernie Wood p.148
6. Lion Red Rugby League Annual 1990 New Zealand Rugby League, 1990. p.72