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Mormon team

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Mormon team

Mormon missionaries helped to improve coaching and player skills after the Second World War. Between 1946 and 1961 a Mormon team would play a New Zealand representative team at the end of the national men's tournament. The New Zealanders usually lost. This is the Mormon team in 1958.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1958/3084-F

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.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John Saker, Basketball – Origins and growth, 1908 to 1950s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/39889/mormon-team (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Saker, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012, updated 1 October 2015.