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Biography: Carroll, Alphonsus John

The New Zealand rugby league team, 1926

The New Zealand rugby league team, 1926

Alphonsus John Carroll (second from right in the second row) was one of seven players in the 1926 rugby league team who returned home from a tour of England after disputes with the team's co-manager, E. H. Mair (seated beside Carroll, third from right).

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-6304-48

Photograph by Crown Studios

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Bob Luxford. 'Carroll, Alphonsus John', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/329/the-new-zealand-rugby-league-team-1926 (accessed 6 June 2026).