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The Gray Hornets: 1911

1911. "Christ's College 1st XV rugby team." Glass plate negative from the Steffano Webb studio in Christchurch, New Zealand. View full size.

1911. "Christ's College 1st XV rugby team." Glass plate negative from the Steffano Webb studio in Christchurch, New Zealand. View full size.

 

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Camouflage

With the team suited up like that, how do you spot the ref? Does rugby even have any officials? As near as I can tell it doesn't have any rules.

Colors Are Accurate

Christ's College Rugby website:

Scrum(p)tious

Rugby players eat their dead, don't they?

Ninety years later

We'd look at this striped bunch as a "Where's Waldo?" convention group pausing for a photo.

TV Flashback

Reminds me about having to adjust the "horizontal hold" on the early television sets.

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