SCRUM HALVES.
“OUT TO BEAT REFEREE.” (P.A.) DUNEDIN. This Day. During a brisk discussion by the Otago Rugby Union concerning the large number of infringements of the rule governing the placing of the ball in a scrum, some members went so far as to say that the majority of scrum halves deliberately cheated, while there were suggestions that club coaches were not innocent in the matter. It was stated that in the referees’ opinion there was only one senior half back who put the ball in fairly and the halts generally were out to beat the referee,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 181, 15 May 1945, Page 4
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