Original allblacks. Football team group portrait

All Blacks rugby union team that toured the United Kingdom in 1905-6. Description from [1] reads:

NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALLERS ON TOUR IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The colonials, who so far have had a brilliantly victorious career, play their last international match on Saturday against Wales, which is expected to be the toughest encounter of the tour, and there is not a Maorilander who does not wish his fellow colonists "kia ora" on that occasion.

Top Row — J. Corbett, W. Johnstone, W. Cunningham, P. Newton, G. Nicholson, C. Seeling, J. O'Sullivan, A. McDonald, D. McGregor, J. Duncan (coach). Middle Row — E .J. Harper, W. J. Wallace, J. W. Stead (vice-captain), G. W. Dixon (manager), D. Gallaher (captain), J. Hunter, G. Gillett, F. Glasgow, W. Mackrell. Bottom Row — S. Casey, H. L .Abbott, G. W. Smith, F. Roberts, H. D. Thompson, H. J. Mynott, E. E. Booth, G. A. Tyler, R. G. Deans.

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1905

National Library of New Zealand

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