RUGBY STRATEGY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18551, 28 November 1925, Page 18

RUGBY STRATEGY.

IRELAND STUDIES ALL BLACK '. TACTICS. /. ~—— - far CABLM— PBBSS ASSOCIATION— COPTBIGHT.) ' UVBTBAUIV AHJ» X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, November 26. , The International Rugby player, C. A, Kershaw, writing to the "Evening Standard," says that he understands that an experiment with the New Zealand formation, eight backs and seven forwards, will be tried. in one team engaged *in an Irish trial match aerinst the other using the orthodox eight pack. . It is an-open secret that clubs in 1 the sooth of belaud are deeply influenced by the theories so attractively ' out '' into' practice daring the last < j visit of the All Blacks. The Irish Internationals, W. E. Crawford and W. H. Browne, 'took pains to get first-hand, from Porter, Richardson and NiohoUs, an explanation off the New Zealanders' ' *|rate«y. « Striking evidence -was furnished at y. Oxford lastweek, when Dublin Univer-'/aityrpl&ying-tberNew Zealand formation, to heavily defeated Oxford Univer*',i •»!s•* that not only Irishmen have been iv jriwr/ased by the New Zealand