First League Club
ESTABLISHMENT OF GAME AT DEVONPORT AND AUCKLAND I J SHORE CLUB’S HISTORY The story of the first League football club to be established in New Zealand—the North Shore Albion Club—will be told in a special article in the sports edition of THE SUN tomorrow evening. The seeds of the code were sown in New Zealand when A. H. Baskerville’s men returned from a tour of England in 1908, and the following year they germinated at Devonport. Shore won its first match, against a combined City club’s side by 44 points to 24. The game was played at Eagleton’s paddock, near where the Showgrounds now are, and attracted an attendance of three spectators. Later another club, the Sunny side Club, -was formed at North Shore, and the two carried on till after the war, ■when they combined and formed the present Devonpoort United League Football Club, which has been a big force in Auckland Rugy League in recent years. The Devonport club lias contributed a long line of players to Auckland and New Zealand representative teams and the doings of some of the more prominent of these will be reviewed in the course of the article. Tomorrow’s article will be the fifth of a series dealing with the histories of the best-known clubs in Auckland's three football codes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 6
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220First League Club Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 6
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