player. After being educated at Te Aute College, where he was introduced
to rugby, Ellison moved to Wellington, and played for the Poneke
Football Club. He was subsequently selected to represent Wellington
province, and was later recruited into Joe Warbrick's privately
organised 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team. Ellison scored 113
points and 43 tries on their epic 107-match tour of the British Isles,
Australia and New Zealand. On his return he continued with Poneke and
Wellington, and from 1892 started to refine and popularise the wing-
forward system of play, which was a vital element of New Zealand rugby's
style until 1932. At the first New Zealand Rugby Football Union annual
general meeting in 1893, he proposed that the playing colours of the New
Zealand side should be predominantly black with a silver fern—a
playing strip that inspired the team's name of All Blacks. That year
he captained the New Zealand side on their tour of Australia. He retired
from playing afterwards, but continued as a coach and administrator.
Ellison was the author of a coaching manual, The Art of Rugby Football,
published in 1902.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ellison>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1217:
In the Battle of Lincoln, the last land battle of the First
Barons' War, William the Marshal drove Prince Louis of France out of
England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lincoln_(1217)>
1609:
Thomas Thorpe published the first copies of Shakespeare's
sonnets, possibly without William Shakespeare's consent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_sonnets>
1882:
The Triple Alliance was created between Germany, Austria-
Hungary and Italy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_(1882)>
1927:
By the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognized the
sovereignty of King Ibn Saud over Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to
become Saudi Arabia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Saud>
1993:
"One for the Road", the series finale of American television
sitcom Cheers, was watched by 42.4 million American households on its
original airing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_for_the_Road_(Cheers)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
much of a muchness:
(idiomatic) Of two or more things, having little difference of any
significance between them.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/much_of_a_muchness>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions
of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture, and
it will change the political structure only as its final act. It will
not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted
by violence. It is now spreading with amazing rapidity, and already our
laws, institutions and social structure are changing in consequence. It
promises a higher reason, a more human community, and a new and
liberated individual. Its ultimate creation will be a new and enduring
wholeness and beauty — a renewed relationship of man to himself, to
other men, to society, to nature, and to the land. This is the
revolution of the new generation.
--Charles A. Reich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_A._Reich>
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