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Pre-tour brochure, containing pen portraits and biographies of the English and Welsh touring team to Australia in 1914, led by Harold Wagstaff. This tour included perhaps the most famous game in Rugby League history, the "Rorke's Drift Test", when England, reduced to ten men by injury, won an astonishing victory in the deciding test.
8vo. 32pp. Illustrated throughout. Original printed paper wrappers, punch holed at spine, spine also rubbed, rusty staples. Very scarce.
| Publisher | Manchester: Athletic News |
| Date | 1914 |