TheBreakdown
Full time25 August 1923
New Zealand
19–9
Australia
Carisbrook, Dunedin, New Zealand · Tour 1923Head-to-head

New Zealand won by 10 points.

Scoring

  1. –CNew Zealand conversion · Jimmy Sinclair2–0
  2. –CNew Zealand conversion · Jimmy Sinclair4–0
  3. –PNew Zealand penalty · Jimmy Sinclair7–0
  4. –PNew Zealand penalty · Jimmy Sinclair10–0
  5. –TNew Zealand try · Fred Tilyard13–0
  6. –TNew Zealand try · Moke Belliss16–0
  7. –TNew Zealand try · David McMeeking19–0
  8. –TAustralia try · Billy Sheehan19–3
  9. –TAustralia try · Ronald Stanley19–6
  10. –TAustralia try · Norman Smith19–9

Line-ups

New Zealand

  1. 15Jimmy SinclairFull-back
  2. Jock RichardsonForward
  3. Len RightonForward
  4. Peina TaituhaFive-eighth
  5. Maurice BrownlieForward
  6. Alex WilliamsForward
  7. Pat PotakaThree-quarter
  8. David McMeekingForward
  9. Frank SnodgrassThree-quarter
  10. Jack SteelThree-quarter
  11. Lou PetersonForward
  12. Fred TilyardFive-eighth
  13. Jimmy MillFly-half
  14. Sam GemmellForward
  15. Moke BellissForward

Australia

  1. 1Thomas DavisProp
  2. 2John BlackwoodHooker
  3. 3Charles ThompsonProp
  4. 4Hugh TaylorSecond row
  5. 5William MarrottSecond row
  6. 6Edward ThornFlanker
  7. 7Ray ElliottFlanker
  8. 8Alexander Roy ArmstrongNumber 8
  9. 9Norman MingayScrum-half
  10. 10William GeorgeFly-half
  11. 11Norman SmithWing
  12. 12Ronald StanleyCentre
  13. 13Billy SheehanCentre
  14. 14Daniel ErasmusWing
  15. 15Otto NothlingFull-back
  16. Murray BuntineBench
  17. Robert LoudonBench

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Context

All-time, New Zealand 147–51 Australia, 8 drawn in 206 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

New Zealand going in
Australia going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.