FIRST RUGBY CLUB.
WELLINGTON CONTROVERSYCLAIM FROM CHRISTCHURCH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The statement made in a recent letter to the New Zealand Rugby Union by Mr. K. C. Tennent, of Woodville, concerning the formation of the first Rugby football Club in the- Dominion is challenged by a newspaper correspondent, who says: "Mr. Tennent is wrong in saying the club he assisted to form in Nelson in 1868 was the first football club in New Zealand." "Christchurch Football Club, 1 " states the correspondent, "was formed in 1863. This club lost its records of ; the first four years, so dates its career from ISB7, when existing records began." The correspondent adds that confirmation is to be found in old newspaper files of the 'sixties. Actually football was played in Christchurch aud Lyttelton in 1562, and rules for the game were drawn up at Chii=f'« College that year.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 231, 29 September 1936, Page 5
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