Milford Laurenson "Curly" Page was a New Zealand Test cricketer and rugby union player,who represented his country in both sports.
This article describes the history of New Zealand cricket to 1890.
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,but also included some Pākehā. A wholly private endeavour,the tour was not under the auspices of any official rugby authority;it was organised by New Zealand international player Joseph Warbrick,promoted by public servant Thomas Eyton,and managed by James Scott,a publican. 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. Having made a significant impact on the development of New Zealand rugby,the Natives were inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2008.
Joseph Astbury Warbrick was a Māori rugby union player who represented New Zealand on their 1884 tour to Australia and later captained the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team that embarked on a 107-match tour of New Zealand,Australia,and the British Isles.
This article describes the history of New Zealand cricket from the 1890–91 season until 1918.
George Henry Noble Helmore was a New Zealand rugby union player who played for the first New Zealand national team on their 1884 tour of New South Wales. Although he never played a test match,he played seven matches and scored 16 points. He also played first-class cricket for Canterbury.
The 1907–1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Australia and Great Britain was made by a group of New Zealand rugby footballers who played matches in Australia,Ceylon,England and Wales between 1907 and 1908. Most of the matches were played under the rules of the Northern Union,a sport that is today known as rugby league. As such,the team were the immediate predecessors of the New Zealand national rugby league team. The tour had a large role in establishing rugby league in both Australia and New Zealand,and also gave birth to international rugby league. The tour party has come to be known as the professional All Blacks or All Golds,although at the time they were commonly referred to as the All Blacks—a named popularised by the New Zealand rugby union team that toured the Northern Hemisphere in 1905.
Charlie James Pearce was a New Zealand rugby footballer who was part of the professional 1907-1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain.\\
The 1912 New Zealand rugby league season was the fifth season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.
The 1913 New Zealand rugby league season was the sixth season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.
The Australia national cricket team toured New Zealand from February to April 1914 and played eight first-class matches including two against the New Zealand national team. New Zealand at this time had not been elevated to Test status. The tour was organized and captained by Arthur Sims,who had previously represented New Zealand. The tour is notable for the fact that it featured Victor Trumper's final appearance in a first-class match before his death at age 37 in 1915.
Edward Bowler Millton was a New Zealand rugby union player who represented his country in 1884,playing as a forward.
Charles Augustus Richardson was an Australian-born cricketer who captained the New Zealand cricket team and scored its first century. He also scored the world's first first-class century of the 1900s.
Charles Harrington Broad was a New Zealand cricketer,rugby union player,and school teacher. He played eight first-class cricket matches for Nelson and Otago between 1888 and 1900,three representative games for the Nelson rugby team in 1894 and 1895,and was headmaster of Nelson College from 1922 to 1933.
Andrew Labatt was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Canterbury and Auckland between 1888 and 1898.
The Australian cricket team toured New Zealand in January and February 1878,before their 1878 tour of England. It was the first overseas tour by a representative Australian team.
Malcolm "Harry" Moorhouse was an English-born cricketer who played first-class cricket in New Zealand for Canterbury and Wellington from 1884 to 1908.
The Australian cricket team toured New Zealand in late November and early December 1886.
William Cranstoun Henry Wigley was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in 22 first-class matches for Canterbury from 1893 to 1904.
The 1882 New South Wales tour of New Zealand was a rugby union tour of New Zealand undertaken by a team from the colony of New South Wales under the auspices of the Southern Rugby Football Union. The team of sixteen players was drawn from seven clubs. A factor in selection was availability. Only six of the twenty-one players that had represented New South Wales against Queensland in August made the tour in September. During the tour NSW played matches against provincial New Zealand sides,but they did not play a representative New Zealand team.
