Rugby History

Frank Crist was a leading player in Wellington club rugby for the Wellington Axemen and for the Wellington representative team, who went on to become one of the leading local First XV coaches of all time. Crist was also a World War two fighter pilot and squadron leader. William Frank Crist

Mick Hourigan was a fast, strapping winger who played for leading club team Marist Brothers Old Boys from the late 1940s and played representative rugby for Wellington over five seasons. Hourigan was a handful to contain at all levels he played in and he was known as a wing who would

The Petone 1973 team was perhaps the most successful team of all time in the modern era. As well as statistics, it was the team's attitude and style of rugby that was significant. Inspired in part by the 1971 British and Irish Lions that beat Wellington 47-9 in their tour match,