Full title: [Collection of newspaper cuttings, ephemera and photographs on mainly Australian rugby league and rugby union, from the Davis Sporting Collection No. 2]

Author/creator: Davis, J. C. (John Corbett), 1870-1941.

Date: [1907-1938]..

Call Numbers: DAVIS SPORTING COLLECTION NO. 2

Record Identifier: 74VKqbl7plQX

Language: English

Formats: Clippings, Ephemera, Photographs

Contents: 5 v. 1 box : ill., ports, photographs., Rugby Football 51-1: Clippings, handwritten notes, correspondence, match reports, results, statistics, team sheets, fixture lists, ephemera and player profiles covering New Zealand rugby union teams in Australia; excerpts including 'The New Zealand rugby football representatives now visiting Australia, 1903', ' The grand old British game - 4 representative rugby football teams that were in Sydney recently: The American universities team: The Australian combination: The New Zealand 'All Blacks' and the Maori team and others; photographs captioned 'Watching the rugby union test match in the rain at the Sydney Sports Ground on Saturday', 'A line-out in the Australia v New Zealand rugby union test match, 1914', 'P. Murphy and D. Williams take the field' and others, 1907-1938 -- Rugby Football 51-2: Clippings, handwritten notes, correspondence, match reports, results, statistics, team sheets, fixture lists, ephemera and player profiles covering the Springbok rugby union team (South Africa) in Australia and New Zealand; excerpts titled 'Jubilee year of Dunedin and rugby union football club, Otago Witness, September 6th, 1921', 'Secondary schools rugby football: the final match for the Moascar Cup, Christchurch Boys High School v Auckland Grammar School played at Lancaster Park, Christchurch on Wednesday September 7th: won by Christchurch by 9 points to nil - the Weekly Press and New Zealand Referee' and others, 1921 -- Rugby Football 51-3: Clippings, handwritten notes, correspondence, match reports, results, statistics, team sheets, fixture lists, ephemera and player profiles covering New South Wales v Queensland rugby league; squad photographs of various Queensland and New South Wales rugby league teams, 1908-1932 -- Rugby Football 51-4: Clippings, handwritten notes, correspondence, match reports, cartoons, caricatures, results, statistics, team sheets, fixture lists, ephemera and player profiles covering English rugby league teams in Australia; photographs from matches between England v Metropolis, the English Northern Union football team, the Australian rugby league team and others; excerpts including 'The English league football team in New Zealand: The first match against New Zealand, played on the Auckland domain, Saturday, July 31st; won by England 31 to 7', 'Some snapshots - The Weekly Press, August 11, 1920', 'English rugby league team defeats Auckland at Carlaw Park - New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review, July 31, 1924', 1910-1920 -- Rugby Football 51-5: Cover of scrapbook only, with newspaper cutting regarding proposed visit to Victoria by GPS rugby union teams.

Publishers: [1907-1938].

Notes: Title supplied by cataloguer.

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MMS ID: 991020376059702626