Attie van Heerden Rugby player

Adriaan "Attie" Jacobus van Heerden (10 March 1898 – 14 October 1965) was a South African Olympian 400-metre hurdler, rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s, playing representative level rugby union (RU) for South Africa (Springboks), at provincial level for Western Province, and Transvaal, and at university level for Stellenbosch University, as a Wing, i.e. number 11 or 14, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Other Nationalities, and at club level for Wigan, and Leigh, as a Wing, i.e. number 3 or 4. Attie van Heerden played for Wigan in the same era as fellow South African Afrikaner David Booysen.