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| Birth name | Alfred Louis Kivell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 12 April 1897 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 1 September 1987 (aged 90) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Stratford, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Stratford High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alfred Louis Kivell (12 April 1897 – 1 September 1987) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A loose forward, Kivell represented Taranaki at a provincial level between 1920 and 1930. He was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, on their 1929 tour of Australia, playing in five matches including two internationals.[1]
Sources vary as to Kivell's place of birth: either Tararu, near Thames;[1] or Karangahake, near Paeroa.[2] Kivell enlisted as a rifleman in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in March 1917, and served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in France in the last months of World War I.[2] He died on 1 September 1987.[2]