Rugby A New Zealand History

Author : Ron Palenski
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775588139

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Rugby: A New Zealand History by Ron Palenski Pdf

Rugby is New Zealand's national sport. From the grand tour by the 1888 Natives to the upcoming 2015 World Cup, from games in the North African desert in the Second World War to matches behind barbed wire during the 1981 Springbok tour, from grassroots club rugby to heaving crowds outside Eden Park, Lancaster Park, Athletic Park or Carisbrook, New Zealanders have made rugby their game. In this book, historian and former journalist Ron Palenski tells the full story of rugby in New Zealand for the first time. It is a story of how the game travelled from England and settled in the colony, how Maori and later Pacific players made rugby their own, how battles over amateurism and apartheid threatened the sport, how national teams, provinces and local clubs shaped it. The story of rugby is New Zealand's story. Rooted in extensive research in public and private archives and newspapers, and highly illustrated with many rare photographs and ephemera, this book is the defining history of rugby in a land that has made the game its own.

Author : Malcolm Mulholland
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781869693053

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Beneath the Mā̄ori Moon by Malcolm Mulholland Pdf

This is the complete story of the New Zealand Maori rugby team, including analysis of the politics behind the side. With unique photographs, memorabilia, cartoons, statistics and player interviews, this book offers something for everyone. This is a must-have for all rugby fans.

Author : Greg Ryan,Geoff Watson
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776710041

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Sport and the New Zealanders by Greg Ryan,Geoff Watson Pdf

A history of New Zealanders and the sports that we have made our own, from the Māori world to today’s professional athletes. '. . . those two mighty products of the land, the Canterbury lamb and the All Blacks, have made New Zealand what she is in spite of politicians’ claims to the contrary’, wrote Dick Brittenden in 1954. ‘For many in New Zealand, prowess at sport replaces the social graces; in the pubs, during the furious session between 5pm and closing time an hour later, the friend of a relative of a horse trainer is a veritable patriarch. No matador in Madrid, no tenor in Turin could be sure of such flattering attention.’ Why did rugby become much more important than soccer in New Zealand? What role have Māori played in our sporting life? Do we really ‘punch above our weight’ in international sport? Does sport still define our national identity? Viewing New Zealand sport as activity and as imagination, Sport and the New Zealanders is a major history of a central strand of New Zealand life.

Author : John Oliver Coffey,Bernie Wood
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Māori (New Zealand people)
ISBN : 9781869693312

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100 Years by John Oliver Coffey,Bernie Wood Pdf

100 Years: Maori Rugby League 1908-2008 tells the story of the New Zealand Maori Rugby League Team from its origins in 1908 to the present day. The book covers major matches, along with biographies of prominent players and administrators. A rich collection of stories and interviews with former players tells the reader what really happened off and on the field. The book has been thoroughly researched with information coming from England, France, Australia and throughout New Zealand, and it is illustrated with over 200 images. There have been no books specifically written on Maori involvement with rugby league, until now. 100 Years: Maori Rugby League 1908-2008 is about players, administrators and whanau. It's about the fabulous moments, the glories of victory and the agonies of defeat, and it gives a comprehensive story of Maori participation in rugby league.

Author : Greg Ryan,Geoff Watson
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781776710065

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Sport and the New Zealanders by Greg Ryan,Geoff Watson Pdf

A history of New Zealanders and the sports that we have made our own, from the Maori world to today’s professional athletes.‘. . . those two mighty products of the land, the Canterbury lamb and the All Blacks, have made New Zealand what she is in spite of politicians’ claims to the contrary’, wrote Dick Brittenden in 1954. ‘For many in New Zealand, prowess at sport replaces the social graces; in the pubs, during the furious session between 5pm and closing time an hour later, the friend of a relative of a horse trainer is a veritable patriarch. No matador in Madrid, no tenor in Turin could be sure of such flattering attention.’ As Brittenden suggested, sport has played a central part in the social and cultural history of Aotearoa New Zealand throughout its history. This book tells the story of sport in New Zealand for the first time, from the Maori world to today’s professional athletes. Through rugby and netball, bodybuilding and surf lifesaving, the book introduces readers to the history of the codes, the organisations and the players. It takes us into the stands and on to the sidelines to examine the meaning of sport to its participants, its followers, and to the communities to which they belonged. Why did rugby become much more important than soccer in New Zealand? What role have Maori played in our sporting life? Do we really ‘punch above our weight’ in international sport? Does sport still define our national identity? Viewing New Zealand sport as activity and as imagination, Sport and the New Zealanders is a major history of a central strand of New Zealand life.

Author : Arthur C. Swan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Football
ISBN : OCLC:38540214

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History of New Zealand Rugby Football by Arthur C. Swan Pdf

Author : Arthur C. Swan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Rugby Union football
ISBN : OCLC:38540214

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History of New Zealand Rugby Football by Arthur C. Swan Pdf

Author : Tony Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134023349

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A Social History of English Rugby Union by Tony Collins Pdf

From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England. Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history, leading rugby historian Tony Collins demonstrates how these values have shaped the English game, from the public schools to mass spectator sport, from strict amateurism to global professionalism. Based on unprecedented access to the official archives of the Rugby Football Union, and drawing on an impressive array of sources from club minutes to personal memoirs and contemporary literature, the book explores in vivid detail the key events, personalities and players that have made English rugby. From an era of rapid growth at the end of the nineteenth century, through the terrible losses suffered during the First World War and the subsequent ‘rush to rugby’ in the public and grammar schools, and into the periods of disorientation and commercialisation in the 1960s through to the present day, the story of English rugby union is also the story of the making of modern England. Like all the very best writers on sport, Tony Collins uses sport as a prism through which to better understand both culture and society. A ground-breaking work of both social history and sport history, A Social History of English Rugby Union tells a fascinating story of sporting endeavour, masculine identity, imperial ideology, social consciousness and the nature of Englishness.

Author : Arthur C. Swan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:123663231

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History of New Zealand Rugby Football by Arthur C. Swan Pdf

Author : Ron Palenski,Rod H. Chester,N. A. C. McMillan
Publisher : Hachette Book Group USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Rugby Union football
ISBN : 1869710266

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The Encyclopedia of New Zealand Rugby by Ron Palenski,Rod H. Chester,N. A. C. McMillan Pdf

The Encyclopedia of New Zealand Rugby is the most complete and detailed book on New Zealand Rugby. First published in 1981, this fourth edition has been extensively updated and is now even more comprehensive than before. It is a valuable reference tool and indispensable companion of every serious follower of the game. This new, expanded version contains biographies of every All Black up to the end of 2004 and expands and updates all other chapters. For the first time, The Encyclopedia will include colour photography.

Author : Trevor Lawson Richards
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781877242007

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Dancing on Our Bones by Trevor Lawson Richards Pdf

Leading New Zealand anti-apartheid campaigner Trevor Richards has written this history of New Zealand's contribution to the fight against racism and apartheid in South Africa. The story of the protests is vividly told - but it is not an account of one man's battle against the system - "it is a serious history of a crucial part of our recent past."

Author : GREG RYAN;GEOFF WATSON.,Greg Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : SPORTS & RECREATION
ISBN : 1776710053

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Sport and the New Zealanders by GREG RYAN;GEOFF WATSON.,Greg Ryan Pdf

"Why did rugby become much more important than soccer in New Zealand? What role have Māori played in our sporting life? Do we really 'punch above our weight' in international sport? Does sport still define our national identity? Viewing New Zealand sport as activity and as imagination, Sport and the New Zealanders is a major history of a central strand of New Zealand life"--Publisher information.

Author : Damion Sturm,Roslyn Kerr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000528473

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Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand by Damion Sturm,Roslyn Kerr Pdf

This fascinating book investigates the sporting traditions, successes, systems, "terrains" and contemporary issues that underpin sport in New Zealand, also known by its Māori name of Aotearoa. The book unpacks some of the "cliches" around the place, prominence and impact of sport and recreation in Aotearoa New Zealand in order to better understand the country’s sporting history, cultures, institutions and systems, as well as the relationship between sport and different sections of society in the country. Exploring traditional sports such as rugby and cricket, indigenous Māori sport, outdoor recreation and contemporary lifestyle and adventure sports such as marching and parkour, the book examines the contested and conflicting societal, geographical and managerial issues facing contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand sport. Essential reading for anybody with a particular interest in sport in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book is also illuminating reading for anybody working in the sociology of sport, sport development, sport management, sport history or the wider history, politics and culture of Aotearoa New Zealand or the South Pacific.

Author : Jamie Wall
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781761062179

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The Hundred Years' War by Jamie Wall Pdf

The Hundred Years' War is the story of the intense competition between the All Blacks and the Springboks over the past 100 years, the games they've played and the battles that have raged from parliaments to the streets. It's an examination of two cultures brought together by rugby, torn apart by racism, then brought back together to forge a new era of rivalry. There are heroes and villains on both sides, on and off the field. For every tale of battling the Boks on the highveld or in the mud of a New Zealand winter, there's one of political intrigue, injustice or cowardice. The events off the field have dramatically shaped those on it, as both the nations and the teams have undergone huge changes. The test matches played between the two sides defined both the Springboks and All Blacks. They have a saying in South Africa: 'You're not a real Springbok until you've played the All Blacks' - perhaps the greatest sign of respect an opposition side has ever paid the most successful team in the world. This is a history of the most brutal and relentless rugby ever played, and the century of bitter struggles that have come with it.

Author : Ryan Bodman
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781991033451

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Rugby League in New Zealand by Ryan Bodman Pdf

This is the story of a sport told through its communities. Rugby League in New Zealand: A People’s History unveils the compelling journey of a game flourishing against the odds. Beginning with the game’s introduction to the country in 1907, Ryan Bodman reveals the deep-rooted connections between rugby league’s development and the evolving cultural fabric of New Zealand. By questioning the mythic status of rugby union in the nation’s identity, this history highlights how power, politics and people have collectively shaped the country’s sporting scene. Drawing on first-hand interviews and a wide range of illustrations and archival material, Bodman locates rugby league history in working-class suburbs, and among Kiingitanga Māori, Pasifika migrants, and clubs and communities across the country. The people behind the game share accounts of change, triumph and resilience, while emphasising rugby league’s lasting influence on New Zealanders’ lives.