Redfern All Blacks

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Redfern All Blacks
Club information
Full name Redfern All Blacks Rugby League Football Club
Nickname(s) RABs
Short name All Blacks
Colours      Black
     White
Founded 1944
Current details
Ground(s)
Chairman Lisa Williams
Coach(s) Dean Widders
Captain(s) Dean Widders
Competition Sydney Combined Competition, South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League
Records
Premierships 1 (2015)

The Redfern All Blacks is an Indigenous Australian rugby league team based in Redfern, New South Wales, They are a part of the Sydney Combined Competition & South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League.

History

Redfern All Blacks is the oldest Indigenous Australian rugby league club in Australia.[1][2][3][4] The club was officially founded by a group of non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal people in 1944,[5] but some accounts suggest the team goes back to around the time of the Great Depression.[3][4][6][7] The club, often referred to as RABs or Redfern, was named after their black guernseys, part of the uniform provided by the South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League in their first playing season.[6] At the time the club was formed, Aboriginal Australians were denied rights afforded to other Australians.[8] Socially, culturally and politically, the club was important to many Indigenous Australias in Redfern at the time, and the club today is central to the history of Aboriginal Redfern.[9][10]

In 1973, the Redfern All Blacks became one of the founding member clubs that formed the inaugural NSW Koori Knockout in which seven teams participated.

Notable team members

NRL players to play for Redfern All Blacks

Honours and records

Team

NSW Koori Knockout Titles: 7

1972, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1992, 1993, 2015

Sydney Combined Competition: 1

2015

References

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Further reading

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