Teams For Trials

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30121, 3 May 1963, Page 15

Teams For Trials

(N.Z. Press Association) ROTORUA, May 2. The national selectors (Messrs D. W. White, E. Butts and W. Telford) today named the Rugby League teams to play in the trials to select the Kiwi team to tour Australia at Audkland on Saturday. The teams for the main match between last years Kiwi team and the National Coaching Schoo! side are:— Coaching School.—Full-back. J. E. Fagan (Auckland); wings, R. Waldron (Auckland). S. White (Taranaki); centres, R. S. Cooke. K. R. McCracken (Auckland): five-eighth, D. Ellwood (Auckland); half-back. M. Casserley (West Coast): back row. R. Sinel (Auckland); locks, M. Hohi, T. Bisman (Canterbury); front row, J. Fisher (Canterbury); K. George (Auckland); hooker, G. Bladder (Canterbury). Kiwis.—Full-back, G. B. Philips (Auckland); wings. B. T. Reidy. N. L. Denton (Auckland); centres. R. W. Bailey (Auckland), G. M. Kennedy (West Coast); five-eighth. J. Bond" (Canterbury); half-back. W. L. Snowden (Auckland); back row, M. L. Cooke (Canterbury); locks. R. D. Hammond. R. C. Ackland (Auckland); front row, H. K. Emery, S. K. Edwards (Auckland): hooker, R. J. Butterfield (West Coast). In a curtain-raiser, a "blue” team will play "red.” All positions have not yet been finalised, and alternatives are named in both teams.

Blue.—Full-back. B. Mann (West Coast); wings, R. Christia

Mann (Auckland); front row. G. Turner (Canterbury), W. Marsh (West Coast); iiopker. C. O’Neill (Wellington). Red —Full-back, C. Mclnerney (Auckland); wings, P. Rowe (Auckland). L. Powell (Waikato); centres, R. K. Griffiths (West Coast). R. Billington. B. Campbell (Auckland); five-, eighth, G. Woollard (Wellington): half-back, G. Farrar (Waikato); back row, B. E. Castle (Auckland): locks, B. McMaster (West Coast), B. £. Lee, B. Turner, R. Hunter (Auckland); front row. A. Wiggs (Auckland), G. Cooper (Canterbury); hooker, W. Schultz, G. Woolsley (Auckland).