1888

Date	Team	Place	Score
June 23	Hawke's Bay	Napier	Won 5 to 0
June 30	Hawke's Bay	Napier	Won 11 to 0
July 7	Auckland	Auckland	Lost 0 to 9
July 11	Nelson	Nelson	Won 9 to 0
July 14	Wellington	Wellington	Won 3 to 0
July 21	Canterbury	Christchurch	Won 5 to 4
July 24	South Canterbury	Timaru	Won 9 to 0
July 28	Otago	Dunedin	Lost 0 to 8
July 31	Otago	Dunedin	Won 1 to 0
August 11	Melbourne	Melbourne	Won 3 to 0
August 15	Melbourne	Melbourne	Drew 1 to 1
October 3	Surrey	Richmond	Won 4 to 1
October 6	Northamptonshire	Northampton	Won 12 to 0
October 10	Kent	Blackheath	Won 4 to 1
October 13	Moseley	Moseley	Lost 4 to 6
October 18	Burton-on-Trent	Burton-on-Trent	Lost 3 to 4
October 20	Midland Counties	Birmingham	Won 10 to 0
October 22	Middlesex	Fletching	Lost 0 to 9
October 24	Hull	Hull	Lost 0 to 1
October 27	Dewsbury	Dewsbury	Won 6 to 0
October 31	Wakefield Trinity	Wakefield	Lost 0 to 1
November 3	Northumberland County	Newcastle	Drew 3 to 3
November 5	Stockton-on-Tees	Stockton	Won 6 to 1
November 7	Tynemouth	North Shields	Won 7 to 1
November 10	Halifax Free Wanderers	Halifax	Lost 4 to 13
November 12	Newcastle and District	Newcastle	Won 14 to 0
November 14	Hartlepool Rovers	Hartlepool	Won 1 to 0
November 17	Cumberland County	Maryport	Won 10 to 2
November 20	Carlisle	Carlisle	Won 13 to 0
November 22	Hawick	Hawick	Won 3 to 1
November 23	East Cumberland	Carlisle	Won 12 to 0
November 24	Westmorland County	Kendal	Won 3 to 1
November 26	Swinton	Swinton	Lost 0 to 2
November 28	Liverpool and District	Liverpool	Won 9 to 0
December 1	IRELAND	Dublin	Won 13 to 4
December 3	Trinity College	Dublin	Drew 4 to 4
December 5	North of Ireland	Belfast	Won 2 to 0
December 8	Lancashire County	Manchester	Lost 0 to 1
December 10	Batley	Batley	Drew 5 to 5
December 12	Yorkshire County	Manningham	Won 10 to 6
December 15	Broughton Rangers	Broughton	Won 8 to 0
December 17	Wigan	Wigan	Won 5 to 1
December 19	Llanelli	Llanelli	Lost 0 to 3
December 22	WALES	Swansea	Lost 0 to 5
December 24	Swansea	Swansea	Won 5 to 0
December 26	Newport	Newport	Won 3 to 0
December 29	Cardiff	Cardiff	Lost 1 to 4

1889

January 1	Bradford	Bradford	Lost 1 to 4
January 3	Leeds Parish Church	Leeds	Won 6 to 3
January 5	Kirkstall	Kirkstall	Won 7 to 3
January 7	Brighouse Rangers	Brighouse	Won 4 to 0
January 9	Huddersfield	Huddersfield	Won 7 to 6
January 12	Stockport	Stockport	Drew 3 to 3
January 14	Castleford	Castleford	Lost 3 to 9
January 17	Warrington	Warrington	Won 7 to 1
January 19	Yorkshire County	Wakefield	Lost 4 to 16
January 23	Spen Valley District	Cleckheaton	Won 8 to 7
January 26	Somersetshire County	Wellington	Won 17 to 4
January 30	Devonshire County	Exeter	Won 12 to 0
January 31	Taunton	Taunton	Won 8 to 0
February 2	Gloucestershire County	Gloucester	Won 4 to 1
February 4	Midland Counties	Moseley	Won 6 to 1
February 6	Blackheath Rovers	Blackheath	Won 9 to 3
February 9	United Services	Portsmouth	Won 10 to 0
February 16	ENGLAND	Blackheath	Lost 0 to 7
February 18	London Welsh	Richmond	Won 2 to 1
February 19	Cambridge University	Cambridge	Lost 3 to 7
February 21	Oxford University	Oxford	Lost 0 to 6
February 23	Manningham	Manningham	Won 4 to 0
February 25	St John's, Leeds	Leeds	Won 9 to 0
February 27	Leigh	Leigh	Lost 1 to 4
March 2	Runcorn	Runcorn	Won 8 to 3
March 4	Oldham	Oldham	Lost 0 to 6
March 5	Halifax Free Wanderers	Halifax	Won 6 to 0
March 7	Barrow and District	Barrow	Lost 0 to 3
March 9	Widnes	Widnes	Won 8 to 1
March 11	Manchester	Manchester	Won 7 to 1
March 13	Walkden	Walkden	Won 6 to 1
March 14	St Helens	St Helens	Won 9 to 0
March 16	Salford	Salford	Won 7 to 1
March 18	Rochdale Hornets	Rochdale	Won 10 to 0
March 20	York	York	Won 4 to 3
March 23	Hull	Hull	Drew 1 to 1
March 25	Widnes	Widnes	Won 6 to 1
March 27	Southern Counties	Leyton	Won 3 to 1
May 15	Maryborough	Maryborough*	Lost 1/2 to 6/9
May 18	Ballarat	Ballarat*	Lost 0/4 to 4/2
May 24	Melbourne	Melbourne*	Won 13 to 6
May 25	Carlton	Melbourne*	Lost 2/4 to 13/16
May 28	Wanderers	Melbourne*	Won 10/11 to 2/3
May 30	South Melbourne	Melbourne*	Won 6/4 to 4/13
May 31	Navy Team XVIII	Melbourne	Won 13 to 6
June 1	St Kilda	Melbourne*	Lost 1/6 to 6/7
June 6	Daylesford	Daylesford*	Won 2/4 to 1/5
June 8	Essendon	Melbourne*	Lost 5/5 to 11/14
June 11	Victoria	Melbourne	Won 19 to 0
June 15	New South Wales	Sydney	Won 12 to 9
June 17	University of Sydney	Sydney	Won 17 to 7
June 19	Parramatta Club and King's School XVIII	Sydney	Won 21 to 0
June 22	New South Wales	Sydney	Won 16 to 12
June 25	Arfoma	Sydney	Won 27 to 3
June 28	Permanent Artillery XVIII	Sydney	Won 32 to 10
July ?	Northumberland	Maitland**	Lost 3 to 6
July ?	Newcastle	Newcastle**	Lost 2 to 6
July 15	Queensland	Brisbane	Won 22 to 0
July 17	Toowoomba XVI	Toowoomba	Won 16 to 0
July 19	Ipswich	Ipswich	Won 17 to 5
July 22	Queensland	Brisbane	Won 11 to 7
July 24	Toowoomba XVII	Toowoomba	Won 19 to 0
August 7	Southland	Invercargill	Won 5 to 1
August 8	Mataura District XVI	Gore	Won 16 to 3
August 10	Otago	Dunedin	Won 11 to 8
August 15	Hawke's Bay	Christchurch	Won 13 to 2
August 17	Canterbury	Christchurch	Won 15 to 0
August 19	Wairarapa	Masterton	Won 10 to 8
August 20	Wellington	Wellington	Won 4 to 1
August 24	Auckland	Auckland	Lost 2 to 7

* Victorian Rules match

** Soccer match

From Greg Ryan, Forerunners of the All Blacks

 

The Players Anderson, W. Elliot, William Ellison, Thomas Rangiwahia Gage, David Richmond Goldsmith, Charles Ihimaira, E. Karauria, Wi Keogh, Patrick Lee, Harry Madigan, Charles Maynard, Richard McCausland, Edward Elsmere Montgomery Nehua, Wiri Rene, Teo Stewart, David

Taiaroa, Richard Warbrick, Alfred Patchett Warbrick, Arthur Warbrick, Frederick Warbrick, Joseph Astbury Warbrick, William Webster, Alexander Williams, George Wynyard, George Wynyard, Henry Wynyard, William Thomas

Essays on Thomas Ellison and Alfred Warbrick can be found on the online Dictionary of New Zealand Biography website