All Blacks Beat France In Rugby World Cup Quarter Final

The All Blacks have thumped France 62-13 at Wembley stadium in Cardiff.
The All Blacks ran away with the game and scored nine tries to France’s one.
Three of them were scored by Julian Savea. The other tries were from  Tawera Kerr Barlow who got two, with one each to Brodie Ritalic, Nehe Milner Skudder, Jerome Kaino and Kieran Read.
The All Blacks were dominant in every area of the park and showed they will be a force later in the tournament.
New Zealand will now play South Africa in the semi finals next week in London.

By Media Team, Shirley

History of the All Blacks

The first NZ team was selected in 1884, for a tour in NSW, Australia.


The team played it's first match against Wellington xv before getting eight wins in eight matches in Australia. Otago prop James Allen who played eight matches for the 1884 team - he has been called the All Blacks no.1.

The 1888-89 natives team that played 102 matches in a marathon tour of N.Z and Australia and U.K. was not an official team. This helped the NZ rugby team to be known around the world.

In 1893 the first N.Z official team was selected for an 11 match tour to Australia. The team only lost once, to NSW in Sydney in 1894.

An official NZ team hosted a visiting team from NSW Australia, in Canterbury - the game was won 8-6 by the visitors.

In 1893 NZ beat Queensland at Wellington to record it's first home win against a visiting team. In 1903 NZ played it's first test match against Australia in Sydney. NZ scored 3 trys to 1 in a
23-3 win.

In 1904 NZ played it's first test match in NZ beating a great Britain team 9-3 in Wellington.



Reported by Hayden

How the All Blacks got their name.

Reason 1: after one of the team's big victories in 1905 , a newspaper planned to have 'All backs' as it's head line. They suggested that the forwards were playing like backs; but the printer made an error and actually gave the head line as 'All Blacks'.

Reason 2: a rugby writer said that he begin to referring to the rugby team from N.Z. as 'All Blacks' because of the colour of their uniform. He said the only colours not black were the silver fern on the left side of the shirt and the white on their boot laces.

What do you think??

BY Hayden