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 | | The tour was a great success, and gave a much needed boost to the game in Britain, which was struggling financially against the rise of association football (A football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal). |
| | On May 16, 1908,the returning New Zealanders played a hastily assembled Queensland team in Brisbane (Capital and largest city of Queensland state; located in the southeastern corner of Queensland on the Pacific; settled by British as a penal colony; 3rd largest city in Australia). |
| | The first game was also notable for a Queensland tackle which rendered one NSW player, Ed "Son" Fry, completely naked from the waist down — an event which did not stop him from scoring a try. |
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