Rugby Union football - Tournaments - Great Britain

Date: 1978

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-135-560

Description: The cartoon shows an All black with a rugby ball in his hand beckoning to a Scottish rugby player who looks cautious and uncertain. Behind the All Black lying on the ground a Welsh rugby player is saying, Robbed in the last minute the thievin' shpalpeen! An Irish rugby player is saying, Robbed! Robbed! Hollywood! Robbed... And an English rugby player is saying, Decidedly humbled by jove! Refers to the 1978 tour of the British Isles by the All Blacks. The team became the first to defeat all British Isles national teams, the 1924 All Blacks did not play Scotland, and went on to win 17 out of 18 games. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 435 x 320 mm.

Date: 1926-1927

By: Grant, Judith, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-7401

Description: Prince of Wales inspecting teams at the Maori vs Blackheath rugby match at Blackheath, England, photographed 1926/27 by various photographers. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1963-1964

From: McLean, Terence Power (Sir), 1913-2004 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11459-030

Description: Letters to McLean while touring with the All Blacks in the United Kingdom and Europe Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1930

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-6575-1/2

Description: Fourth Rugby test between New Zealand and Great Britain, Athletic Park, Wellington. Photograph taken 1930 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Date estimated by cataloguer, from known beginning of Evening Post negative collection in 1927, and commencement of numbered sequence in late 1932. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1930

From: McLean, Terence Power (Sir), 1913-2004 : Papers

Reference: 2007-282-5/3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1935

By: Farmers' Trading Company

Reference: Eph-C-RUGBY-1935-02

Description: Poster shows small head and shoulders portraits of 29 rugby players and their manager V R Meredith. At the bottom is a schedule of the matches they were to play on their tour of Britain in 1935/1936. The age of each player is given; the age range is from 20 to 27. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 505 x 317 mm.

Date: 1918-1928, 1930, 1952-1954

From: Hoskins, Barbara, active 1941-2015 : Papers relating to the Nimmo and Anton families

Reference: MS-Papers-11601-10

Description: Comprises papers relating to Sidney James Anton and Sybil Edith Nimmo. Includes sentimental card dated 1917, greeting cards, comic postcard and booklet "Pithy Paragraphs", note from Ursula Nimmo, annotated envelope, a St Paul's Cathedral and a Roman Catholic matrimonial rites booklet. Includes cards for the engagement or marriage of Sidney and Sybil in 1928, annotated by donor. Includes Sybil Nimmo's dance cards for local Wellington balls circa 1923. Also includes rugby tour itinerary cards for Springbok Tour of New Zealand in 1921, British Rugby Tour of New Zealand in 1930, All Black rugby tour of South Africa 1928, and All Black tours of Great Britain in 1928 and 1953-1954. Other - Items kept in a leather wallet owned by Sidney James Anton (see MSX-9134) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2012

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021732

Description: Shows All Black Captain Ritchie McCaw gesturing to a monkey jumping on to the back of an Irish rugby player. Context: Ireland has lost 26 of the 27 test rugby matches played against New Zealand. The All Blacks had not repeated their 1987 Rugby World Cup success until 2011 despite being often tipped to win the tournament. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1963

From: [Ephemera, programmes and booklets relating to rugby union football played by New Zealanders or in New Zealand. 1963].

By: Ullyett, Royden Herbert Frederick, 1914-1989

Reference: Eph-A-RUGBY-1963-01

Description: A menu with a reproduction of a poem by A P Herbert for the occasion. Sir Jocelyn Lucas was in the chair, and Viscount Cobham and captain Wilson Whineray were present. The front cover cartoon shows two British guests looking at the big boots beneath their table and thereby recognising that the All Black fullback kicker Don Clarke is the player seated opposite. Front cover is signed in blue ink at top left by John Graham, a member of the All Black team. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - J Graham Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded menu card, 245 x 178 mm.