Rugby: A New Zealand History
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Rugby: A New Zealand History

  1. 460 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Rugby: A New Zealand History

About this book

Rugby is New Zealand's national sport. From the grand tour by the 1888 Natives to the upcoming 2015 World Cup, from games in the North African desert in the Second World War to matches behind barbed wire during the 1981 Springbok tour, from grassroots club rugby to heaving crowds outside Eden Park, Lancaster Park, Athletic Park or Carisbrook, New Zealanders have made rugby their game. In this book, historian and former journalist Ron Palenski tells the full story of rugby in New Zealand for the first time. It is a story of how the game travelled from England and settled in the colony, how Maori and later Pacific players made rugby their own, how battles over amateurism and apartheid threatened the sport, how national teams, provinces and local clubs shaped it. The story of rugby is New Zealand's story. Rooted in extensive research in public and private archives and newspapers, and highly illustrated with many rare photographs and ephemera, this book is the defining history of rugby in a land that has made the game its own.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 A fork in the football road
  8. 2 Rugby comes to New Zealand
  9. 3 Thinking nationally – sometimes
  10. 4 The first and the greatest
  11. 5 The grand tour
  12. 6 The game splinters
  13. 7 From war to the Invincibles
  14. 8 Lessons on tour
  15. 9 The shadow of the wing forward
  16. 10 Defeat at home and abroad
  17. 11 Springboks, race and a new era
  18. 12 End of an era approaches
  19. 13 Conflict and money
  20. 14 The more things change . . .
  21. Epilogue
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. Imprint