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Third Test “After hearing the radio broadcast, watching the game on T.V., and reading critics’ views as well as hearing many armchair critics, I wish to state that a half-back’s function is to pass the ball. In Saturday’s game Going did this successfully only five times.
“The rest of the time passes to Kirton were short, high, behind, or else the five-eighths had to stretch for the ball. Kirton handled the ball magnificently and made up for Going's inadequacies.
"He did score two tries, but his play is highly overrated. Stephens’s onehanded, overhead passes, when under pressure, were far more accurate.”—EX-HALF-BACK.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31760, 17 August 1968, Page 11
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