Rugby timeline

By dezynthos
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    Rugby timeline

    1870l Wirhana , first maori in starting line up for whangauni country

  • 1883

    1883
    1883, one of the first rugby clubs is formed in thames

  • 1888

    1888
    for the first time the haka is performed before a rugby match

  • 1889

    1889
    New Zeland natives tour britian

  • 1910

    1910
    the rugby team gets recognized by the NZRFU and play their first offical match

  • 1921

    1921
    NZ Maori lose 8-9 to South Africa

  • 1922-1925

    1922-1925
    NZ Maori play all the blacks for the first time losing 14-21 George Nepia plays 38 matches in a row

  • 1927

    1927
    NZ Maori tour the northern hemisphere winning 30 out of 40 matches

  • 1938

    1938
    New Zeland Maori tour Fiji

  • 1943

    1943
    New Zeland Maori battalion team wins the freyberg cup

  • 1949

    1949
    maori are excluded from the all blacks tour of south africa becuase of the wholly european player policy

  • 1956

    1956
    an intense rivalry against springsbok continuse when NZ maori plays South Africa at Eden park

  • 1960

    1960
    Maori players are excluded again from an all black tour in South Africa