No Instructions To All Blacks
International Rugby rules prevented the presence of a coach on the field at half-time, and therefore players could not receive instructions from him. This was what led to the All Blacks in Australia this year suggesting facetiously that should the coach want to pass information to the team during a match it would only require one of the players to do a "dying swan” act while the team gathered round and the message was passed by way of the line umpire. In any event, there were no volunteers for the part. -
This information was given to “The Press” yesterday by a member of the team, W. J. Whineray, commenting on a report on the sports page of “The Press” last Saturday. The report, reprinted from a North Canterbury paper, was of an address Whineray gave to the Kaiapoi Rotary Club. The report suggested that a message had been passed to the players in the manner described.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28368, 29 August 1957, Page 19
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161No Instructions To All Blacks Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28368, 29 August 1957, Page 19
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