Billy Wallace

A True Rugby Legend

Billy Wallace
Denis Dwyer
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Paperback
h324 x 153mm - 224pg
8 Aug 2022 NZ
Locally sourced in NZ eta 7-15 days
9781776890064
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In 1905 Billy Wallace was selected to represent New Zealand, touring the British Isles, France and North America, as part of a rugby team that became known as The Original All Blacks. It was during this landmark tour that Billy Wallace showed the rest of the world how the game should be played. Wallace' s rugby career highlights include: scoring the first points for New Zealand in an international test match; being the first Kiwi to score 500 points in first-class rugby; holding the New Zealand record for the most points scored in a single All Blacks match for 46 years. To this day Wallace holds the world record for the most points scored on a rugby tour by any player. Including previous unseen rugby archive and family photographs, this fascinating biography tells the complete story of the life and career of Billy Wallace, a true rugby legend.
Denis Dwyer has been passionately involved in sport since he played for an Oamaru junior rugby team in 1951. Now he is a recreational walker and a volunteer at the New Zealand Rugby Museum in Palmerston North. It was the donation of Billy Wallace' s massive scrapbook to the museum by his grandchildren in 2019 that triggered this biography. His previous publications include New Zealand on Foot, New Zealand Adventures by Rail and the biographies Black Jersey, Silver Fern: Tom Ellison - First Maori to Captain the All Blacks and The Good Citizen: The Story of the Remarkable Tom Ryan: All Black, Artist, Entrepreneur, Sailor, Adventurer. Denis also has a personal rugby connection to the Wallace era - his grandfather Jack Dwyer, whom he remembers well, was a playing contemporary of Billy Wallace for Otago.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781776890064
Published: 8 Aug 2022
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: David Bateman
Publisher: David Bateman
Format: Paperback
Height: 324mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 20mm
Pages: 224

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