Energy Of Rugby Players

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 22

Energy Of Rugby Players

Clf.Z. Fr«»» XMoetatKm) WELLINGTON, July 14. Rugby-loving Professor W. J. H. Butterfield, professor of medicine at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London, arrived in Wellington to lecture to postgraduate medical groups in New Zealand.

Professor Butterfield has made extensive research into the energy expended by Rugby players. Forwards in the Guy’s Hospital team lost about 41b in weight a game and the backs about 21b.

The professor said the backs used about 700 calories during a game and the forwards between one to two thousand.

Players in a club game were found to be engaged in play for rather less than half the total playing time, but players in an international game were actively engaged in about two thirds of the match, he said. “T have been watching the

All Blacks playing to tests to England from 1935 till the tone when an enormous men called Ciarte kicked the ball from one end of the field to the other.” said Professor Butterfield.

He said he was engaged to England devising a scheme which wilt attempt to tote-

enta medical care for between 60 to 80 thousand persons in t new bousing project at Greenwich. During his lecture tour, Professor Butterfield will also speak about the btotogteat effects of nuclear weapons.