CAMBRIDGE WINS AGAIN

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 26

CAMBRIDGE WINS AGAIN

(N.Z.P.A .-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. December 11. Cambridge University scored Its fourth successive Rugby win against Oxford University yesterday by 19 points to II at Twickenham. A crowd of 50.000 saw Cambridge score four tries, two conversions, and a penalty goal to Oxford’s try. conversion, penalty goal, and dropped goal. It was the highest scoring university match since 1934. when Cambridge won, 29-4.

Jacobs Leads Midlands XV (N.Z.P.A .-Reuter— Copyright) LONDON, December 11. The veteran prop, R. Jacobs, who was recalled by England to play in all three tests on the short tour of New Zealand and Australia | this year, will captain a Mid- i land Counties XV against the AU Blacks at Leicester on December 28. The team, which is drawn from clubs in the eastern part of the Midlands, also includes a British Lion, D. P. Rogers, and a fellow English “cap,” N. Drake-Lee. M. Wade, a Cambridge Blue who gained three English caps in 1962, is at left wing-three-quarters, and I. Laughland, Scotland’s versatile back, is at left centre.

Test On Television

Channel 3 Television will show on Saturday a halfhour edited version of the first international match of the AU Blacks’ tour, the game against Ireland played art Dublin last Saturday. The programme will begin at 11.3 p.m.