Potential Champions
In discussing players that the Australia Rugby League team met on its tour of New Zealand an Australian journalist selected two South Island players as potential champions. He said that R. S. Irvine (Canterbury) and J. K. Dixon (West Coast), if selected for the British tour, could return as the best in the world in their positions. Irvine impressed with his great defence and incisive running in the Canterbury match while
Dixon was the best forward for West Coast against Australia and in the second test He was selected as the “Player of the Week” by the Auckland Supporters Club, the first West Coaster to win this trophy since R. K. Griffiths in 1962. The Australians considered the West Coast the strongest province it met on tour. In that match the Australian test team won only 16-6.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 11
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139Potential Champions Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 11
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