rugbyunion

The black Jersey with the silver fern emblem are of the All Blacks New Zealand rugby union team. The site saintsandheathens.wordpress.com/wallabies-rugby-jerseys/w... says that the Australian rugby union team (Wallabies) jersey for 1938 was 'gold with a green centre band' for a match against New Zealand. It does not list this jersey colours used for any other year. Matches between Australia and New Zealand were played in 1938 as follows 13 August 1938Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 6 August 1938Exhibition Ground, Brisbane 23 July 1938Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney This photo is likely to be of one of these matches. The Houses in the background look to be typical of Queensland architecture of the time - elevated timber buildings. I therefore suggest that this is a photo of Australia v New Zealand dated 6th August 1938 at the exhibition grounds Brisbane.

Fantastic detective work Peter McCombe ! Thanks for sharing this info. We would have to agree with you on all accounts. It's likely the game is in Brisbane as George Jackman was a photographer for the Brisbane newspapers The Courier Mail and The Daily Mail from 1920 -1945.

A time when advertising in a sport was not a consideration. I do love the jerseys though.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Towers adb.anu.edu.au/biography/towers-cyril-henry-thomas-15620 Cyril Henry Thomas Towers (1906-1985), rugby union player, was born on 30 July 1906 at Mansfield, Victoria, one of three children of English-born Ernest Alfred Thomas Towers, schoolteacher, and his Victorian-born wife Frances Annie Theresa, née Doyle. With his mother and his two sisters Cyril moved to Melbourne, where he acquired his trademark kicking skills playing junior Australian rules football, and then to Roma, Queensland, and a carefree country life. When the family moved to Sydney, at Randwick Boys’ Intermediate High School he had the good fortune to have Oates Taylor as his rugby coach and mentor. When attending Christian Brothers’ College, Waverley, he met Wally Meagher, who became his friend and confidant. They both rigorously applied the Arthur Hennessy ‘run at all times, never kick’ doctrine.