1894 Waratahs tour of New Zealand

1894 Waratahs tour of New Zealand
Summary	P W D L
Total	13 4 1 8
Test match	1 1 0 0
Opponent	P W D L
New Zealand[1]	1 1 0 0

The 1894 Waratahs tour of New Zealand was a collection of rugby union games undertaken by the New South Wales Teams against invitational and national teams of New Zealand.

The Waratahs won four of the matches, including the intercolonial match against New Zealand, and lost the other eight.

Matches

25 August 1894

Auckland	14–11	New South Wales

Auckland

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29 August 1894

North Island	15–3	New South Wales

Auckland

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1 September 1894

Taranaki	21–6	New South Wales

New Plymouth

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3 September 1894

Wanganui – Manawatu	13–0	New South Wales

Recreation Ground,Manawatu

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5 September 1894

Hawke's Bay	17–12	New South Wales

Napier

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8 September 1894

Wellington	9–5	New South Wales

Newtown Park, Wellington

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10 September 1894

South Canterbury	0–23	New South Wales

Timaru

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13 September 1894

Canterbury	11–3	New South Wales

Lancaster Park, Christchurch

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15 September 1894

New Zealand XV	6–8	New South Wales
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Lancaster Park, Christchurch

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19 September 1894

West Coast	8–10	New South Wales

Greymouth

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22 September 1894

Nelson Bays	4–13	New South Wales

Nelson

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25 September 1894

Wairarapa	21–3	New South Wales

Wairarapa

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Touring party

The New South Wales Rugby Union selected 25 players to represent the colony on tour:^[2]

• Alcock (Wallaroo)
• Barry (Orange)
• Brand (Armidale)
• Bliss (Armidale)
• Clayton (Orange)
• Cupples (Pirates)
• Carson (Orange)
• Cobb (Newcastle)
• Dibbs (Wallaroo)
• Edwards (Newcastle)
• Galloway (Randwick)
• Henlen (Randwick)
• Hanna (Paddington)

• Lane (Wallaroo)
• Lohan (Orange)
• Lusk (Pirates)
• McMahon (Randwick)
• Parish (Randwick)
• Ranken (Bathurst)
• Riley (Randwick)
• Surman (Randwick)
• Sawyer (University)
• Scott (Wallaroo)
• Walsh (Pirates)
• Wyburd (Bathurst)

References

All found on link and other

• Auckland Star, Monday 27 August 1894 p 3
• Evening Post, Thursday 30 August 1894 p. 3
• Taranaki Herald, Saturday 1 September 1894 p 2
• Wanganui Chronicle, Tuesday 4 September 1925 p 12
• Evening Post, Monday 10 September 1894 p. 3
• Barrier Miner (Broken Hill), Monday 10 September 1894 p 3
• Otago Daily News, Thursday 13 September 18794 p 4
• Otago Daily News, Monday 17 September 18794 p 4
• Barrier Miner (Broken Hill), Thursday 20 September 1894 p 3
• Auckland Star, Monday 24 September 1894 p 2
• Barrier Miner (Broken Hill), Wednesday 26 September 1894 p 2

Notes

1. Not official test for NZRU
2. The NSW team cannot be called thoroughly representative as ten players from the home intercolonial matches played that year (including Colquhoun, Roberts and Barrie) were unable to make the tour."Football: Team for New Zealand.". Evening News (Sydney). 15 August 1894. p. 2. Retrieved 17 September 2015.