CANTERBURY RUGBY
Sir, —Now that Canterbury has won the Ranfurly Shield again, we hope that you will give our players the support they have deserved, but failed to get in the past. Through intelligent coaching the team has developed a combination unequalled in the country. Unlike the reports published in other centres’ papers, your accounts of Canterbury’s games have been consistently skimpy and unappreciative of the team’s brilliance. You reached your lowest ebb in last Wednesday’s leading article when you compared the Wellington team with the “Kiwis” without a word for the varied and entertaining Canterbury style of play. Ead you recognised our boys’ ability during the season it would have given them encouragement and confidence in the trials as well as being some consolation to the nine men overlooked by the New Zealand selectors. However, our gallant Canterbury “near-misses” proved the selectors wrong by outplaying Wellington in all departments of the game.—Yours, etc., RED AND BLACK. September 20, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27151, 22 September 1953, Page 3
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