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Haurongo: Carroll, Alphonsus John

The New Zealand rugby league team, 1926

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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).

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-6304-48

Photograph by Crown Studios

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Bob Luxford. 'Carroll, Alphonsus John', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/329/the-new-zealand-rugby-league-team-1926 (accessed 4 June 2026).