FIRST RUGBY CLUB
CLAIM CHALLENGED By Telegraph —Press Association WELLINGTON, September 29. A 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 at Nelson in 1868 was the first football club in New Zealand. The Christchurch football club was formed in 1863. This club lost the records of the first four years, so it dates its career from 1867, when the existing records began.”
The correspondent adds that confirmation is to be found in old newspaper files of the sixties. Actually lootball was played in Christchurch and Lyttelton in 1862, and the rules for the game were drawn up at Christ’s College in that year.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20536, 30 September 1936, Page 13
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147FIRST RUGBY CLUB Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20536, 30 September 1936, Page 13
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