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| Full name | Philip William Bancroft | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Canterbury, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Halfback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Philip William Bancroft [2] is a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand in two Test matches in 1989.
A Canterbury and South Island representative in the 1980s, [3] Bancroft played for the Glenora Bears in the Auckland Rugby League competition and also represented Auckland. [4] In 1988, 1989 and 1990 Bancroft won the Painter Rosebowl Trophy for being the leading goalscorer in the competition.[ citation needed ]
Bancroft played for English Rugby League Club Rochdale Hornets in the 1985/86 season, enjoying a good season but narrowly missing out on promotion.[ citation needed ]
In 1989 Bancroft was called up to the New Zealand national rugby league team and played in two test matches against Great Britain. [5] [6]
Bancroft later returned to Canterbury playing for the Haswell Hornets club and the Canterbury Country Cardinals in the 1994 Lion Red Cup. [7] [8]
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