1928 New Zealand rugby league season

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1928 New Zealand rugby league season
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The 1928 New Zealand rugby league season was the 21st season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.

International competitions

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Auckland Province lost to Great Britain 14-9 after leading 9-8 while

Jim O'Brien, Wally Somers, Lou Hutt, Trevor Hall, J Payne and Alan Clarke. Auckland Province included Joe Menzies from South Auckland as well as Dufty, Scott, List, Beattie, W Hanlon, Jim Amos, Bill Peckham, Neville St George, Dick Moisley, Hall, J Payne and R Jenkinson from Auckland City.[1]

National competitions

Northern Union Cup

Northern Union Cup at the end of the season. Auckland won the trophy by defeating South Auckland 22–3 in June before defeating Canterbury 66–26 in Auckland to defend the trophy.[1]

Inter-district competition

Otago traveled to Auckland in September, being defeated 42–22 at Carlaw Park.

Jim Amos, Roy Hardgrave, Craddock Dufty, Allan Seagar, Hec Brisbane, Len Scott and Claude List represented Auckland while Canterbury included Ted Spillane.[2] Otago included Bert Eckhoff.

Club competitions

Auckland

Marist in 1928

Devonport won the Auckland Rugby League's competition.[3] Marist won the Roope Rooster, Stormont Shield and Labour Day Knockout Competitions. Grafton Athletic won the Norton Cup.

Jim Amos played for City.[2]

Charles Gregory and Wilf Hassan
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Wellington

Hutt won the Wellington Rugby League's Appleton Shield.[3]

Canterbury

Marist Old Boys won the Canterbury Rugby League's McKeon Cup.[2][3]

Marist Old Boys defeated Greymouth Marist 22–13 to win the Thacker Shield.

Other Competitions

The Hikurangi Rugby Club withdrew from the North Auckland rugby union competition in 1928, helping to establish rugby league in Northland.[4] The Northland rugby league team first played in 1929.

Marist Old Boys defeated the Otago Rugby League's Christian Brothers 17–10 to win the Gore Cup.[2]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d Coffey, John. Canterbury XIII, Christchurch, 1987.
  3. ^ a b c Lion Red Rugby League Annual 1990 New Zealand Rugby League, 1990. p. 72
  4. ^ Our History Hikurangi Rugby Club