1909 New Zealand rugby league season

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The 1909 New Zealand rugby league season was the second season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.

International competitions

See also:
List of New Zealand Kiwis matches and 1909 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia

Ronald MacDonald. Albert Asher was invited to tour with the side but declined, opting to remain in Auckland and organise the upcoming Māori tour of Australia.[2] These were the last tests between New Zealand and Australia on Australian soil until 1948.[3]

A New Zealand Māori side also toured Australia, the second Māori team to do so.[4] The team was captained by Riki Papakura and included Albert and Ernie Asher, Jim Rukutai and Frank Barclay.[5] Before the side left New Zealand they lost 14–21 to Auckland on 10 July 1909 at Victoria Park in front of 2–3,000 spectators.[2]

Glebe in the NSWRFL Premiership.[5]

Inter-district competitions

Auckland played two matches against Taranaki. Taranaki won the first match at Victoria Park 8–7 on 7 August in front of 5,00 fans before losing 11–27 at the New Plymouth Sports Ground on 16 September.[6] Lance Todd served as the referee for both matches.[2] Adam Lile was the Taranaki player-coach and the side included Arthur Hardgrave and Lance Moir.

The Auckland team for the first match was;

Dick Papakura
all appeared for Auckland later in the season.

Hercules Richard Wright
.

Bill Tyler but the Auckland selectors underestimated the quality of the Rotorua side and picked an understrength side. Auckland fullback Archie Ferguson broke his leg in the match and retired, becoming a referee. Ferguson controlled the 1910 Auckland match against Great Britain and toured Australia twice, as a referee in 1919 and as a co-manager of New Zealand in 1930.[2]

Club competitions

The

Billy Wynyard was elected treasurer.[2] Within days three clubs had been formed; City Rovers, Devonport United (later North Shore) and Newton Rangers. Ponsonby United
had been formed in 1908. Duncan McLean was the first chairman of both Devonport United and the Auckland Rugby League.

There was also a three club sub-league in Rotorua that affiliated itself to the ARL.[6]

The first ARL sanctioned match was held on 24 July 1909 at Eagleton's Ground in Epsom. The North Shore club defeated a City combination 44–24. The City combination consisted of players involved in forming all three of the clubs on that side of the harbour and included

Charles Dunning. The North Shore were captained by Dick Wynyard and included Frank Woodward.[2]

Charles Dunning, Jack Stanaway and Arthur Carlaw were elected to the executive.[2]

Ponsonby United defeated the Newton Rangers 16–6 on 21 August at

Charles Dunning and Arthur Carlaw were among the 32 players that played for Ponsonby that year.[2]

The City Rovers included Ernie and Albert Asher, Jim Rukutai and Alex Stanaway.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Why They Lost The First Three Games in Australia". The Evening Post. Vol. LXXVII, no. 145. 12 June 1909. p. 3. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4
    .
  3. ^ John Coffey and Bernie Wood, The Kiwis: 100 Years of International Rugby League, Hodder Moa, Auckland, 2007, p. 38.
  4. ^ New Zealand Maori Teams – 1908 & 1909 Archived 1 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine rl1908.com
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-1-86969-331-2
    .
  6. ^ a b c Sky Rugby League Annual '98 New Zealand Rugby League, 1998
  7. ^ History Of Wellington Rugby League Association Wellington Rugby League
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