England + Wales Rugby Tour of Australia Handbook 1914 – Antique

Description

DATE 1914

Australian Rugby official Handbook 1914

A Pre tour rugby brochure, containing photo pen portraits and biographies of the English and Welsh touring team to Australia in 1914, led by Harold Wagstaff.

The programme consists of 32 pages in black and white with editorial, prospects, fixtures, and results from the 1910 Tour.

This tour included perhaps the most famous game in Rugby League history, the “Rorke’s Drift Test”, when England, reduced to ten men by injury, won an astonishing victory in the deciding test.

Illustrated throughout the programme.

A rare early 1900’s rugby memorabilia handbook.

Condition
V Good,cfld,lcr,slrs,a few edge ni/tears on the cover,a few mottling markings looks worse on the scans, than it actually is),

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