History
Bay of Plenty is a proud rugby union that has contributed richly to the long and distinguished history of the game in New Zealand. The union who were the inaugural winners of the NPC in 1976 and have experienced equal measures of agony and ecstasy throughout its history.
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“History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.”
—Henry Ford (1863–1947)
“Boys forget what their country means by just reading “the land of the free” in history books. Then they get to be men, they forget even more. Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books.”
—Sidney Buchman (1902–1975)
“Indeed, the Englishman’s history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)