The 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team played 107 rugby union matches during their 14-month tour of the British Isles, Australia, and New Zealand.

The 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team played 107 rugby union matches during their 14-month tour of the British Isles, Australia, and New Zealand. The tour was the longest in rugby history, and the first by a New Zealand team to Europe. The team was privately organised by Joe Warbrick, and was originally intended to contain only Māori players. Several non-Māori and a number of non-New Zealand-born players were eventually recruited to strengthen the side.

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The New Zealand Natives before their match against Queensland in July 1889, in front of the United Tribes flag and the Union . The Natives were the first New Zealand team to perform a haka, and also the first to wear all black

The New Zealand Natives before their match against Queensland in July 1889, in front of the United Tribes flag and the Union Jack. The 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team was a New Zealand rugby union team that toured Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand in 1888 and 1889. It mostly comprised players of Māori ancestry, and also included some Pākehā (white New Zealanders). The Natives were the first New Zealand team to perform a haka, and also the first to wear all black. They played 107 rugby matches during the tour, as well as a small number of Victorian Rules football and association football matches in Australia.

The New Zealand Natives football team prior to playing Queensland in July 1889

The New Zealand Natives football team prior to playing Queensland in July 1889. The 1888–1889 New Zealand Native football team was a New Zealand football team that toured Britain, Australia and New Zealand in 1888 and 1889. 1888–1889 New Zealand Native football team. The New Zealand Natives' football team prior to playing Queensland in July 1889.

Greg Ryan, Forerunners of the All Blacks: the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 1993. Brian Stoddart, ‘Sport, Cultural Imperialism, and Colonial Response in the British Empire’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 30, no. 4, October 1988. Arthur C. Swan, History of New Zealand rugby football 1870–1945, . Reed, Wellington, 1948. Colin Tatz, Aborigines in sport, ASSH Studies in Sport, no. 3, Australian Society for Sports History, Adelaide, 1987.

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team was a New Zealand rugby union team that toured Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand in 1888 and 1889.

The 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team was a New Zealand rugby union team that toured Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand in 1888 and 1889.

The real orginals were not the All Blacks who toured Britain 1905-6, but the comparatively unknown New Zealand Native Football Representatives of 1888-89. The first international rugby team ever t tour Britain, they played 107 matches in fourteen months, against teams consistently stronger than those encountered by the famed All Blacks of 1905 and 1924. This is their fascinating, previously untold story. Recently added by. oriolegirl. New Zealand (1) rugby (1) tours (1).

New Zealand rugby boasts a brilliantly evocative picture of this period in Warwick Roger's Old Heroes (1992), but has yet to find its .

New Zealand rugby boasts a brilliantly evocative picture of this period in Warwick Roger's Old Heroes (1992), but has yet to find its Gareth Williams. Sporting lore alleges that nobody remembers who comes second

Ryan, G. Forerunners to the All Blacks: The 1888–89 New Zealand Native Football Team in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press.

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