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- The 1917 Auckland Rugby League season was its 9th. Due to the large number of players now serving in the First World War it was agreed to relax transfer rules to allow players from stronger teams to join weaker teams to even the competition. It was noted how many men from various clubs had been killed in battle by the beginning of 1917. They were Cecil Walker, Doug Dawson, T Marshall (Grafton Athletic), Charles Savory, Frank McWhirter (Ponsonby United), Graham Cook (Ponsonby United), N Vause, V McCollum, Alf Gault, T Lambert, E Tiernan, F Stubbs, W. G. Handle (Ponsonby United), B Hart, F Gladding, A Powley, Chas Mann (North Shore Albions), , G Jones, W Harris, S Magee, S Greer (City Rovers), A Miller, C Sinton, and L O'Leary (Sunnyside). City Rovers had 'sent' ninety men to war by this time and twenty-one had been wounded and five killed. The Sunnyside club had only nine members left and one of those who had gone to the war (W Shaughnessey) said that in the trenches he had made a list of league players from various clubs which totalled 120. All three of the Sunnyside secretaries had enlisted and the executive was also gone. Ponsonby had also had over eighty of its members join the war effort. (en)
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- dbr:Bill_Davidson_(rugby_league)
- dbr:Maurice_Wetherill
- dbr:George_Seagar
- dbr:Stan_Walters_(rugby_league)
- dbr:Jim_Clark_(rugby_league)
- Lang (en)
- King (en)
- Browne (en)
- Tierney (en)
- Tom Sheehan, Robert Clark 2, Bill Davidson 2, Ernie Asher (en)
- Thomas 2, C Nicholson, Phil Castles, George Seagar, Ernie Bailey (en)
- Bill Walsh 2, Thomas McClymont 2, C Nicholson, Stewart (en)
- George Iles, Phil Castles, Bill Cloke, Bill Williams (en)
- Bill Davidson 2, Thomas McClymont, Thomas, Mitchell, Sam Lowrie, Maurice Wetherill (en)
- A Eustace, McAubrey, Bill Davison (en)
- Albert Ivil, George Iles (en)
- Arthur Rae 2 (en)
- Arthur Rae, Bill Walsh, Sam Lowrie (en)
- Barclay, James Hing (en)
- Bill Davidson, Harry Francis 2, Hogan (en)
- Bill Davidson, unknown x 1, Tom Sheehan (en)
- Bill Walsh, A Cross, Arthur Rae (en)
- C Mitchell (en)
- C Nicholson, Frederick Neighbour (en)
- C Nicholson, Frederick Neighbour, Ernie Bailey (en)
- C Nicholson, George Seagar, Jim Griffen (en)
- Clark 2, Guiney, Hickey (en)
- D McCarthy 2, Sam Lowrie, Iles, Arthur Rae (en)
- Dacre, Simpson, James Hing, Courtnenay (en)
- Ernie Asher, Bill Davidson, Hogan 2 (en)
- George Iles 3, James, R Clarke (en)
- George Iles, Dick Tobin 2 (en)
- Hastedt, Robert Clark 2 (en)
- J Sutton, Robert Clark, Bill Davidson (en)
- Leonard Boon (en)
- Leonard Boon, C Nicholson (en)
- Les Bull (en)
- McAubrey, Tom Sheehan (en)
- unknown x 1, George Iles, Bill Williams 2, Phil Castles, Len Farrant (en)
- P Higgins (en)
- Parks, Marshbank (en)
- Phil Castles (en)
- Pullen, Stewart, Stan Walters, Leonard Boon (en)
- Ronald Lovett, Wally Somers (en)
- S Jones, Arthur Pooley (en)
- S Jones, D McCarthy (en)
- Spence Jones, Arthur Rae 2 (en)
- Spence Jones, Jim Clark (en)
- Spence Jones, Thomas McClymont 2 (en)
- I Hogan, Stanaway, Bill Davidson, Jim Rukutai, A Eustace, C Mitchell (en)
- Thomas McClymont, A Maddison (en)
- Tom Sheehan, Bill Davidson, H Lunn, George Paki (en)
- Unknown x 1 (en)
- W Henderson (en)
- W Matthews, Stan Walters, Kirk (en)
- unknown x 1 (en)
- Leonard Boon, C Nicholson, Stan Walters, George Seagar (en)
- W Henderson 2, S Jones 2, Arthur Rae 2, A Cross, Jim Clark, L Martin (en)
- Bill Williams 2, Len Farrant 3, George Iles 3, A McSweeney 2, C Potier (en)
- George Iles 2, Dick Tobin, Bill Williams, Bill Cloke, A Thomas (en)
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- The 1917 Auckland Rugby League season was its 9th. Due to the large number of players now serving in the First World War it was agreed to relax transfer rules to allow players from stronger teams to join weaker teams to even the competition. It was noted how many men from various clubs had been killed in battle by the beginning of 1917. They were Cecil Walker, Doug Dawson, T Marshall (Grafton Athletic), Charles Savory, Frank McWhirter (Ponsonby United), Graham Cook (Ponsonby United), N Vause, V McCollum, Alf Gault, T Lambert, E Tiernan, F Stubbs, W. G. Handle (Ponsonby United), B Hart, F Gladding, A Powley, Chas Mann (North Shore Albions), , G Jones, W Harris, S Magee, S Greer (City Rovers), A Miller, C Sinton, and L O'Leary (Sunnyside). City Rovers had 'sent' ninety men to war by this tim (en)
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