Story: Rugby union

More links and websites

• Allblacks.com

  The official website of the All Blacks includes a complete listing of former All Blacks as well as much current news about the team.

• Rugby football history

  This site is the work of an English enthusiast and includes good information on the history of rugby around the world.

• Sport – NZ History

  NZ History has well-researched material on regional rugby, the 1888–89 Native tour, the 1981 Springbok tour and the 1987 World Cup, and a Māori rugby timeline.

More suggestions and sources

• Akers, Clive, Geoff Miller and Adrian Hill (eds). 2017 rugby almanack. Auckland: Upstart Press, 2017.
• Knight, Lindsay. The Shield: a century of the Ranfurly Shield. Auckland: Celebrity Books, 2002.
• Palenski, Ron. Century in black: 100 years of All Black test rugby. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 2003.
• Palenski, Ron, Rod Chester and Neville McMillan. Men in black. Auckland: Hodder Moa, 2006.
• Phillips, Jock. A man’s country?: the image of the Pakeha male, a history. Auckland: Penguin, 1987.
• Ryan, Greg, ed. Tackling rugby myths: rugby and New Zealand society 1854–2004. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2005.