This month we are giving away a copy of Rugby: A New Zealand History, by Ron Palenski. To enter the draw, please email your name and address to Alumni Relations Manager Melanie Barr at m.barr@auckland.ac.nz. The winner will be notified on 6 November 2015.
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 Māori and later Pacific players made rugby their own, how battles over amateurism and apartheid threatened the sport, and how national teams, provinces and local clubs shaped it. But above all it is a story of wing forwards and fullbacks, of Don Clarke and Jonah Lomu, of the Log of Wood and Charlie Saxton’s ABC, of supporters in the grandstand and crackling radios at 2am.
Based on extensive research in public and private archives and newspapers, and 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.
This month we are giving away a copy of Rugby: A New Zealand History, by Ron Palenski. To enter the draw, please email your name and address to Alumni Relations Manager Melanie Barr at m.barr@auckland.ac.nz. The winner will be notified on 6 November 2015.
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 Māori and later Pacific players made rugby their own, how battles over amateurism and apartheid threatened the sport, and how national teams, provinces and local clubs shaped it. But above all it is a story of wing forwards and fullbacks, of Don Clarke and Jonah Lomu, of the Log of Wood and Charlie Saxton’s ABC, of supporters in the grandstand and crackling radios at 2am.
Based on extensive research in public and private archives and newspapers, and 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
Ron Palenski is among the most respected authorities on the history of sport in New Zealand. He has written numerous books, among them a scholarly study, The Making of New Zealanders, which firmly placed rugby as a marker in national identity.
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