Team: | New Zealand |
Yearstart: | 1903 |
Yearfinish: | 1903 |
Destination: | Australia |
Manager: | A.C. Norris |
Captain: | Jimmy Duncan |
Top Point Scorer: | Billy Wallace (87) |
Top Try Scorer: | Albert Asher (17) |
Matchplayed: | 11 |
Matchwon: | 10 |
Matchdraw: | 0 |
Matchlost: | 1 |
Played1: | 1 |
Won1: | 1 |
Draw1: | 0 |
Lost1: | 0 |
Previous: | 1897 Australia |
Next: | 1905 Australia |
The 1903 New Zealand tour rugby to Australia was the fourth tour by the New Zealand national team to Australia. Nine matches were played against regional and district sides along with one test match between the two national sides,[1] the first played by New Zealand in their history.[2]
On 11 July, New Zealand played a preliminary match v. the Wellington Rugby Football Union at Athletic Park, won by the local team by 14–5.
Name | Position | Province | |
---|---|---|---|
Billy Wallace | Back | Wellington | |
Albert Asher | Wing | Auckland | |
Duncan McGregor | Wing | Canterbury | |
Dick McGregor | Centre | Auckland | |
John Stalker | Centre | Otago | |
John (Billy) Stead | Five-eighth | Southland | |
Jimmy Duncan | Five-eighth | Otago | |
Morrie Wood | Five-eighth | Canterbury | |
Arthur Humphries | Half-back | Taranaki | |
Henry Kiernan | Half-back | Auckland | |
Loftus Armstrong | Wing forward | Wairarapa | |
Reuben Cooke | Loose forward | Canterbury | |
Bernard Fanning | Lock | Canterbury | |
Dave Gallaher | Hooker | Auckland | |
Fred Given | Flanker | Otago | |
Paddy Long | Forward | Auckland | |
Archie McMinn | Loose forward | Wairarapa | |
George Nicholson | Loose forward | Auckland | |
Harry Porteous | Forward | Otago | |
John Spencer | Loose forward | Wellington | |
George Tyler | Hooker | Auckland | |
Dan Udy | Hooker | Wairarapa |
Complete list of matches played by New Zealand in Australia:[3]
Test matches
width=30px | width=60px | Date | width=180px | Rival | width=100px | City | width=180px | Venue | width=40px | Score | |
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1 | 11 Jul | 5–14 | |||||||||
2 | 18 Jul | 12–0 | |||||||||
3 | 22 Jul | Combined Western District | 47–7 | ||||||||
4 | 25 Jul | 3–0 | |||||||||
5 | 29 Jul | Metropolitan Union | 33–3 | ||||||||
6 | 1 Aug | 17–0 | |||||||||
7 | 5 Aug | Western Queensland | 29–0 | ||||||||
8 | 8 Aug | 28–0 | |||||||||
9 | 11 Aug | Combined Northern Districts | Albion Cricket Ground | 53–0 | |||||||
10 | 15 Aug | 22–3 | |||||||||
11 | 19 Aug | NSW Country | 32–0 |
width=40px | Pl | width=40px | W | width=40px | D | width=40px | L | width=40px | Ps | width=40px | Pc |
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11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 281 | 27 |