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The Poneke team of 1886. Sid Nicholls seated with rugby ball in hand. Profiling some of the people that built and helped shape the game in Wellington, from its inception in 1870 through to the WRFU’s 50th Jubilee year in 1929. Who’s your “Daddy’”? If you are involved with Poneke and to a
Rugby History
Pioneers of Wellington Rugby: 003 George Campbell
The Athletic Football Club in 1882, with the Union Challenge Cup. George Campbell in the centre holding the ball. By Dribbling Rushes Profiling the people that built and helped shape the game in Wellington, from its inception in 1870 through to the WRFU’s 50th Jubilee year in 1929. Seven years after the
RUGBY IN 1922 (part TWO REPRESENTATIVE rugby)
The Wellington team that toured the South Island in 1922. Whilst club rugby at the Senior Championship level was as strong and competitive as ever, before or since, the second great era of the Wellington rugby team drew to a close in 1922. ‘Five-eighths’ later summed up a frustrating representative campaign in
LOOKING BACK A CENTURY: RUGBY IN 1922 (PART ONE CLUB RUGBY)
Following a memorable 1921 season, particularly on the representative front with Wellington ending the year with the Ranfurly Shield locked away and the All Blacks hosting the Springboks in their inaugural series, 1922 failed to reach the same lofty heights. Wellington fell away – and lost the Shield to Hawke’s Bay
REMAINS OF THE DAY
Above: "Barney” Ronaldson seated on the ground at bottom right in the Greytown team photo of 1884. By Touchline An unplanned walk among the derelict tombstones of the “public” section of Wellington’s Karori Cemetery on New Year’s Day caused Touchline to muse that the pride of society in its history can