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Kōrero: Māori rugby – whutupaoro

Te tīma Whutupaoro Māori o Aotearoa i te tau 1888-89

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1888–89 New Zealand Native Rugby Football team

Koia tēnei te tīma Whutupaoro Māori o Aotearoa o te tau 1888-89. Nā Joseph Warbrick i whakarite te tīma, ā, tokowaru ngā kaitākaro nō ngā whānau e rua – tokorima nō te whānau Warbrick, tokotoru nō te whānau Wynyard (kotahi o rātou i uru ki te tīma i Piritana). Ka haere te tīma i Piritana, i Ahitereiria me Aotearoa. Ko ngā kaitākaro, rārangi o muri: Ko Arthur Warbrick, ko A. Webster, ko J. R. Scott (kaikōkiri), ko G. Williams, ko William (arā Billy) Warbrick, ko Alf Warbrick: rārangi o waenganui: ko E. Ihimaira, ko W. Wynyard, ko D. Gage, ko Joe Warbrick (kāpene), ko Fred Warbrick, ko G. Wynyard; aroaroākapa: ko Richard Taiaroa, ko T. Ellison, ko R. Maynard, ko Wi Karauria, ko C. Goldsmith. I te tau 2008 ka whakawahia a Joe Warbrick (tōna kotahi) me taua tīma tahi ki te Kāhui Whutupaoro Rongonui o te Ao.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections

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by James D. Richardson

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm Mulholland, Māori rugby – whutupaoro – Origins of Māori rugby union, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/39617/1888-89-new-zealand-native-rugby-football-team (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm Mulholland, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012, updated 1 January 2015.