Education
Spencer attended Mountain Cook School in Wellington.
rugby league player rugby union player
Spencer attended Mountain Cook School in Wellington.
Spencer was a carpenter by trade. Spencer represented Wellington in 49 matches, an unusually high number for anyone to play in those years of limited programmes, between 1900 and 1908. After making the North Island side in 1907 Spencer, by now nearly 29, was chosen for the tour of Australia, as was John Spencer.
He played in five matches on tour and kicked three conversions but he was overlooked for all three tests.
In 1909, when he was 30, he toured Australia for a second time. He played in one of the tests thus gaining the cap he had missed in rugby union.
The Spencers are the only brothers to have been both All Blacks and Kiwis.
