He was team captain and nominated by the West Coast Rugby Union for selection for the New Zealand to tour Australia that year.

Sam Bligh's selection in the 1910 New Zealand team was well publicised in Greymouth newspapers yet, for over 100 years, rugby records had credited Bligh as being affiliated to the Buller Rugby Union at time of selection.

He used a pseudonym when playing rugby, because his family held strong temperance beliefs and disapproved of the game.

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