BROKEN NECK
Gum Stuck In Throat
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.AJ
NEWPORT (Wales)
The Pontypool front row forward, R. Addison, an automatic choice for the combined team to meet the Wallabies at Newport today before he broke his neck in a match, will listen to the game from his hospital bed. The 20-year-old international will listen to the first half on the. radio and then he will watch a telecast of the second half as the Wallabies play the combined Pontypool-Cross Keys-New-bridge team. Addison will be lying flat on his back in a hospital at Stoke Mandeville, near Oxford.
He is still seriously ill after breaking his neck and becoming paralysed while playing for Pontypool against Rugby two weeks ago. The accident was caused by a small piece of chewing gum, which slipped down his windpipe during a scrum.
As he tried to free himself from the front row to stop himself from choking he buckled under the scrum's pressure and his neck was broken. Addison was rushed the 60 miles from Rugby to the special clinic at Stoke Mandeville by helicopter.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31230, 30 November 1966, Page 19
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180BROKEN NECK Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31230, 30 November 1966, Page 19
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