PHENOMENAL RISE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 180, 1 August 1932, Page 3

PHENOMENAL RISE.

VICTORIAN RUGBY PLAYER. TO TEST TEAM IN ONE YEAR.

Ernest Edward Dunlop, the only ViSrTan-born player in the A™*n*an RiH»y XV. which met the All Blacks in iie final Test match, is.K 6ft 3in high, and weighs Met 101b. He is lock forward™ the University Rugby team and has had a phenomenal rise *<> tional honours, having only begun to •nlav the game a year ago. P He played before, and still plays, in the Ormond College Australian football team in the ruck. . ■ Onrr-h----"Although I have been playing Rugby for so short a time, I like it better than my old game," Dunlop said, "and that is sayinff a great deal." He qualified the remark with: "I think Rugby is the better game to play, though pur Australian game is more interesting trom outside the fence." Rugby, he explained, was more ot a "team game." The whole team gets into action at one time, and moves like one man in great dashes down the field, striving to defeat the opposing side and put the ball over the line. The tackling also appeals to me. To me the tackling is more thrilling than anything in the Australian game. I am speaking as a player." . . _ *