RUGBY REVIVAL IN AUSTRALIA
Television Said To Be Responsible (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 15. Television was helping to create one of the biggest Rugby revivals in Australian history, according to the joint managers of the touring Petersham-Suther-land Rugby Club, New South Wales (Messrs N. M. Champion and R. McLean) today. The 20 Petersham-Sutherland players arrived in the . Wanganella today for a five-match tour of the North Island. They will play a Petone team tomorrow.
The joint managers said Rugby was the only game televised in Sydney because of the high price asked by the Rugby League for television coverage. For that reason Rugby was being brought into the homes of the public and creating considerable interest, they said. League, they said, was “more than scared’’ of the revival and was engaging highly-paid liaison officers in Sydney and Brisbane to visit schools to try to regain lost ground.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29001, 16 September 1959, Page 6
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