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The 1905 Australia tour of New Zealand was a collection of rugby union games undertaken by the Australia side against invitational and national teams of New Zealand. It was the first Wallaby overseas tour. [1] [2] Australia played a total of seven games in New Zealand, with 3 wins and 4 losses.
The trolley was armed with a machine gun turret from a Ferret armoured car. Several examples are preserved in the Royal Malaysian Police Museum, the National Army Museum, Port Dickson and the Tunku Abdul Rahman Memorial in Kuala Lumpur. [7] Target trolleys. Wickham made trolleys adapted for the military as unmanned target trolleys.
Stan Wickham (4 January 1877 – March 1960) was a pioneer Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative centre who captained the Australian national side on a number of occasions in the early 1900s. He was tour captain for the inaugural Wallaby overseas tour, that to New Zealand in 1905.
The first New Zealand representative match was played in May 1884 against a Wellington XV before the New Zealand team departed for their tour of New South Wales. [1] This side predates the formation of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union (now New Zealand Rugby), which was not established until 1892.
The 1903 New Zealand tour rugby to Australia was the fourth tour by the New Zealand national team to Australia. Nine matches were played against regional and district sides along with one test match between the two national sides, [ 1 ] the first played by New Zealand in their history.
The New Zealand Rugby (NZR) is responsible for rugby in the country. The NZRU was formed in 1892 as the New Zealand Rugby Football Union with the original representation of seven unions though there was the original significant absence of Canterbury, Otago and Southland. The NZRFU joined the IRFB in 1949. There are 26 member unions within New ...
J.A. Redwood (chairman of the New Zealand Rugby League) and G. Grey Campbell (chairman of the Auckland Rugby League) were named as the co-managers of the team but Grey Campbell later withdrew due to ill-health and was replaced by R. Doble, also of the Auckland Rugby League. [5] [6] Canterbury forward Rex King was named captain of the team. [7]
The 1963–64 New Zealand tour of Britain, Ireland and France was a rugby union tour undertaken by the New Zealand national rugby union team. The tour took in the five major Northern Hemisphere rugby nations of England , Scotland , Ireland , Wales and France .