About the Author

Greg Ryan is a Senior Lecturer in History at Lincoln University, New Zealand. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters on sport in New Zealand he has edited Tackling Rugby Myths: Rugby and New Zealand Society 1854-2004 (2005) and has written three books – The Contest for Rugby Supremacy: accounting for the 1905 All Blacks (2005); The Making of New Zealand Cricket 1832-1914, (2004); and Forerunners of the All Blacks: The 1888-89 New Zealand Native Football Team in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, (1993).