| Date of birth | 13 May 1962 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Hāwera, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Florence Broughton (born 13 May 1962) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. She was a reserve in the Black Ferns first-ever match against the California Grizzlies at Christchurch in 1989 and featured against the Netherlands in RugbyFest 1990. [1]
Her sister is fellow Black Fern Jude Broughton. [1]
The New Zealand national women's rugby union team, called the Black Ferns, represents New Zealand in women's rugby union, which is regarded as the country's national sport. The team has won five of the past six Women's Rugby World Cups.
Broughton Rangers were one of the twenty-one rugby clubs which met at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, in 1895 to form the Northern Rugby Football Union. They were originally based in Broughton, Salford, but in 1933 moved to Gorton, Manchester to play at the Belle Vue Stadium, and were renamed Belle Vue Rangers in 1946. The club folded in 1955. In 2005, local businessman Stefan Hopewell attempted to resurrect the club and now owns the intellectual property to Broughton Rangers and Belle Vue Rangers.
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