Ellerslie Eagles
| Club information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Ellerslie Eagles Rugby League Football Club |
| Website | www.facebook.com/EERLFC/timeline |
| Colours | Red / White / Navy Blue |
| Founded | 1912 |
| Current details | |
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| Coach | Lewis Godsmark |
| Competition | Auckland Rugby League |
| Records | |
| Premierships | 1957, 1974 |
| Runners-up | 1972 |
| Minor premiership | 1957, 1972, 1974 |
| Roope Rooster | 1955, 1956, 1959, 1968, 2004 |
| Stormont Shield | 1955, 1959, 1968, 1974 |
| Sharman Cup | 1949, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1992, 2002 |
The Ellerslie Eagles are a rugby league club based in Ellerslie, New Zealand. The club was founded in 1912 and competes in Auckland Rugby League competitions. Its premier team competes in the Sharman cup. The club celebrated its centenary Queen's Birthday weekend, 2012.
The club was formed as the Ellerslie Wanderers at a meeting in April 1912 at the Ellerslie Hotel. However with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the club went into temporary recess for four years.
The club was reestablished on 26 July 1919 as the Ellerslie United Rugby League Club. With its reestablishment, the club adopted the Red, Blue and White colours that it still currently uses. In 1931, at request of the Auckland Rugby League, an amalgamation of the Ellerslie, Otahuhu and Mangere clubs took place, but all plans of this merger were abandoned before the year ended.
The club had a golden period in the 1950s, claiming the 1955 Roope Rooster and Stormont Shield, the 1956 Roope Rooster, the 1957 Fox Memorial and Rukutai Shield and the 1959 Roope Rooster and Stormont Shield. The club also played against three clubs from the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, losing to the Balmain Tigers 35-7 in 1956, defeating the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 16-15 in 1958 and losing to the St. George Dragons 10-11 in 1959.
During the 1960s the Auckland Rugby League instituted a districts programme and Ellerslie, City Newton and Eastern Suburbs combined to form Eastern Districts. The combination won almost every trophy between 1960 and 1963 before the clubs regained their separate identities. In 1968 the Pakuranga club was formed as a feeder club to Ellerslie. Former New Zealand Kiwis representative Maurie Robertson was appointed as coach in 1970.
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