By 1879, the game's popularity was expanding and the first rugby unions were formed in Canterbury and Wellington. The New Zealand Rugby Football Union (NZRFU) was established in 1892. Rugby events As the country’s national sport, today rugby is a part of Kiwi culture, with some major eve...
Rugby union is so popular in New Zealand that it’s the country’s unofficial national sport. In fact, New Zealand is home to over 500 clubs, 140,000 registered players and 2,300 referees. Rugby union has been played in New Zealand since the 1870s, but various early versions of the sp...
The capital of New Zealand has had a huge impact on the development of sports in general and rugby in particular. The main two sports disciplines are athletics, namely running and rugby. These two disciplines wonderfully complement each other. Wellington operates the Wellington Rugby Football Union,...
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Rugby Lions two seasons ago while at Loughborough - also played for England in the last Students World Cup."Simon comes on a strong recommendation from Bob Reeves, the English Universities manager, and is a really nice signing for us," said Coventry's rugby administrator Ian Carvell."He ...
(Rugby) the All Blacks the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand [so named because of the players' black playing strip] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011...
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New Zealand (ˈziːlənd) n (Placename) an independent dominion within the Commonwealth, occupying two main islands (the North Island and the South Island), Stewart Island, the Chatham Islands, and a number of minor islands in the SE Pacific: original Māori inhabitants ceded sovereignty...
“New Zealand Rugby has set an ambitious goal of becoming the most technologically advanced rugby union in the world,” said Scott Russell, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Customer Success. “As the organization’s first-ever technology partner, SAP can help NZR meet this goal by ...