1937 Rugby Season Opens— With the first games in the senior grades of the Wellington Rugby Football Association’s competition on Saturday, the 1937 season, which will be notable on account of the visit of th South African team, began in earnest. The game at Athletic Park was between the Marist Brothers Old Boys and Wellington clubs, the former winning by 9 points to 8. The above picture shows a Wellington player passing out as he was tackled during an attack by the team’s backs.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 173, 19 April 1937, Page 7
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841937 Rugby Season Opens—With the first games in the senior grades of the Wellington Rugby Football Association’s competition on Saturday, the 1937 season, which will be notable on account of the visit of th South African team, began in earnest. The game at Athletic Park was between the Marist Brothers Old Boys and Wellington clubs, the former winning by 9 points to 8. The above picture shows a Wellington player passing out as he was tackled during an attack by the team’s backs. Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 173, 19 April 1937, Page 7
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