Birth name | Douglas Bryce Rope | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 11 February 1923 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 2 March 2013 | (aged 90)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Auckland Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Auckland University College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Douglas Bryce Rope (11 February 1923 – 2 March 2013) was the coach of the New Zealand rugby union team from 1983 to 1984.
Rope was born in 1923 and attended Auckland Grammar School. [1]
During World War II, Rope trained in Canada and then was a flight instructor with No. 20 OTU. He saw active service, flying fighter bombers in operations over Europe. [1]
Rope played rugby for Auckland and New Zealand Universities in the 1940s and 1950s, as a loose forward. [2] He was All Blacks coach from 1983 to 1984, [2] coaching the team to nine wins in 12 test matches.