Rugby—League
WHEN UNION CHAMPIONS DEFEATED LEAGUE CHAMPIONS MARIST LEAGUE HISTORY The story of the time when a champion Auckland Rugby Union team played a champion Rugby League team, and won by two points, Will be told in the sports edition of THK SUN tomorrow evening. That match took place at the end of the 3 917 season when the Railway Rugby team played the Ponsonbv League team. The following week the Rugby men played and were beaten by the City League team. However, the players took to the League code, and that incident was really the beginning of the present Marist Brothers’ Old Boys’ Rugby League Football Club. The history of the club will be told in tomorrow evening’s sports edition. The club came into being in its present form in 1919.
It carried off :.ts first championship in 3 924, and last season was the champion of champions of Auckland League. In addition, there will be short pen sketches of the careers of half a dozen or so of the more prominent players the. Marist Club has had in its ranks. The article will also feature pictures of the champion Railway team of 1917. the Marist champions of 3 924, and the champion of champions side of last season.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 12
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210Rugby—League Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 12
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