Wellington Club Weekly and Athletics
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McEvedy Shield stars and future rugby players
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Adam Julian & Steven White The 101st McEvedy Shield athletics meeting is being held at Newtown tomorrow. In modern times, the event is a four-school competition between Wellington College, St Patrick’s College Kilbirnie, St Patrick’s College Silverstream and Rongotai College. As such, a roll call of future well known club and representative rugby players...
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Silverstream, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5019, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 033: Patrick McEvedy and Arthur O’Brien
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Arthur O’Brien (left) in 1904 and Patrick McEvedy in 1908. Two players who attended St Pat’s Town a couple of years apart in the 1890s and played against the All Blacks for Great Britain/Anglo-Welsh teams on their tours in 1904 and 1908. Of the pair, McEvedy, is the most well-known, primarily because he leant his...
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