Shore Rugby
STORY OF AUCKLAND’S OLDEST FOOTBALL CLUB
A FOUR-HOUR MATCH!
The story of the North Shore Rugby Football Club, the oldest football club in Auckland still in active existence, will be told in the sports edition of THE SUN tomorow evening.
Th© North Shore Club was formed away back in 1872, three years before the Ponsonbv Rugby Club came ini* existence, and this establishes it as the senior club in Auckland Rugby today In addition to details of the formation of the club, and the doings of the chief players and officials, many incidents will be told of the game as It was played over half a century ago, when it bore very little to the faster and more scientific ganv of modern times. Those were the da; ■ when a match continued till one or other side scored, and it Is records that on one occasion the battle raged for no less than four hours!
Reminiscences of some of the oldtime players for North Shore who aro still living should prove interesting, and in addition the article will feature a picture of the Devonport team o' 1899, which won the Auckland Rugby Union’s senior competition. There will also be a picture of tb* Auckland representative team of lSk—the second team sent on tour by the Auckland Rugby Union.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1009, 27 June 1930, Page 12
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219Shore Rugby Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1009, 27 June 1930, Page 12
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