Edited sentence: At this stage none of the players played rugby as a career, although several became professionals after the tour had ended.The New Zealand Rugby Union considered the players to be professionals and all members of the tour subsequently received a life ban from rugby union.The members of the tour had all invested £50 and received back an equal share of the tours profits.The players on the tour did not consider themselves to be professionals.They compared themselves to past tours such as the 1902 Australian cricket tour of England which had shared the profits of the tour and were still regarded as amateurs