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Kōrero: Teenagers and youth

Rugby heads

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Rugby heads

A group of Otago rugby heads – aged around 20 – pose in front of a Kingswood and a Falcon before leaving Dunedin to drive to Auckland for Otago's Ranfurly Shield challenge in August 1992 (Otago lost 21–16). 'Rugby heads' was a common term in the 1990s. It referred to rugby players or followers  or both. They often wore jeans, leather boots and rugby jerseys, or rugby shorts in warmer weather.

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Carl Walrond

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Carl Walrond, Teenagers and youth – Transitions and social relationships, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/27017/rugby-heads (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 22 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.