Australia Can Be Top In Rugby
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SYDNEY, May 27.
Australia was capable of becoming the world champion Rugby nation Within the next two years, Mr T. H. Pearce said today, according to an interview in the Sydney “Daily Mirror.”
Mr Pearce is in Sydney after attending the Jubilee matches in South Africa. He said “The average Australian doesn’t know how really good your boys are. “But in the last two years you have just lost a close series against the All Blacks and confirmed that form by drawing a test series against the Springboks.
“That South African effort was tremendous. I know how hard it is to win a test there. “I was manager of the 1960 All Blacks to South Africa and we could win only one test.” Mr Pearce said Australia’s sharp rise in international football was reflected in the standard of club games. “I watched the Northern Suburbs-Gordon match last week and I am convinced that Northern and some of your other top teams could win the Auckland senior competition,” he said.
“The days of treating the Wallabies lightly have gone,”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30452, 28 May 1964, Page 17
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