MORE SPEECHES THAN FOOTBALL
Statistics Of All Black Tour <N.z Press Association— Copvnanti BLOEMFONTEIN, July 5. With the half-way stage of its Australian and South African tour reached the All Black team's statistician, I. N. Mac Ewan, has come up with some interesting figures. Up to its arrival in Bloemfontein from Salisbury on Monday evening, the team had covered 18.229 miles. Although most of the longer inland journeys have now been completed, Mac Ewan calculated that the team will have travelled at least 32,000 miles by the time it returns to Auckland in September. The total playing time so far is 19 hours 20 minutes. Thirty hours 2' minutes have been spent listening to speeches. The team has been airborne more than a normal New Zealand working week, making 25 takeoffs and landings in that time. On the field the All Blacks have scored 74 tries, 41 conversions, 25 penalties and one field goal for 382 points, compared with 10 tries, three conversions, and 15 penalties for 81 points scored against them.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29250, 7 July 1960, Page 16
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