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NEW ZEALAND 1905 (v WALES)

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NEW ZEALAND 1905 (v WALES)
   

A 1905 All Blacks jersey swapped with Welsh player Cliff Pritchard after the match with Wales. Cliff Pritchard was the Welsh 'Rover', the man who supplied the pass to Rhys Gabe who fed Teddy Morgan who scored the try. According to the local newspaper the Pontypool Free Press, Pritchard caught the train home to Pontypool and when he arrived in the station at 11.23 pm he was expecting it to be deserted. The station however was packed with well wishers. They then carried him shoulder high through the streets, It is thought he was wearing this jersey on his lap of honour around Pontypool.

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no label but 'M' stamped into the jersey is common to all 1905 jerseys, it is believed that it stands for 'Mary', Mary Stubbs and her husband John founded J Stubbs, Hosiery Manufacturer, later to be known as the Manawatu Knitting Mills silver fern embroidered onto the jersey with a white felt patch background numbers were tacked on for each game and not sewn on, there is a snag in the cotton where a number has been pulled off the jersey at some stage during the tour.

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