Rugby History

The Seagull, specialist openside flanker Bill Clark was involved in all four of University’s Jubilee Cup title wins in the 1950s. He was in the team that won a three-peat between 1952-54 and when he retired due to recurring injuries at the end of the 1958 season, he was one of

For over a decade in the 1940s up to his retirement in 1956, Vince Bevan was one of Wellington’s leading players and the first-choice halfback for many of these seasons. For one reason or another, Bevan didn’t play as much top-level rugby as he should have, and certainly not for the

Graham “Red” Delamore was Wellington’s only representative in the 1949 All Blacks touring party to South Africa. Several Wellington players had been in the running to make the trip to South Africa nine years earlier in 1940, with local players such as Ernie Todd and Jim Sherratt being two examples of

Richard ‘Dick’ Burke is one of several prominent players whose careers were curtailed by World War II, but whose playing days finished with a flourish before moving on to a meritorious coaching career. One of the leading players in a middling University team in Wellington club rugby throughout the latter half