2nd centennial match

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33191, 3 April 1973, Page 26

2nd centennial match

<AT Z Press Assn.—Copynyhtj j EDINBURGH. Six New Zealanders and seven Australians have been named in the Scottish Rugby Union President’s XV to play a Scottish Combined Districts team at the Galashiels ground on Wednesday. The side ‘ includes one South African and one Scot. The match is the second in ! the Scottish Rugby Union’s ; week of centennial celebraI tions which will culminate in I a seven-a-side tournament at I the Murrayfield stadium on ’Saturday. P. Sullivan (Australia) will (captain the President’s XV, which is:

R. L. Fairfax (Australia);

.G. Batty (New Zealand), R. Carlson (South Africa), D. L’Estrange (Australia). G. R. Skudder (New Zealand), I. N. Stevens (New Zealand), J. Hipwell (Australia), B. A. Holmes (New Zealand), P. D. Sullivan (Australia, captain), G. Fay (Australia), B. D. Stumbles (Australia), A. I. Scown (New Zealand). A. R. Sutherland (New Zealand), Q. Dunlop (Scotland), D. A. Dunworth (Australia). The All Black half-back, (G. ■L. Colling), injured his left shoulder in training at Edinburgh yesterday and is unlikely to take further part in the Scottish Rugby Union's centennial celebrations, the I N.Z.P.A. staff correspondent in Britain reported. Although no bones were broken, Colling was believed to have severely strained some ligaments. The injury occurred during a hastily-arranged seven-a-side match with a local club team which had turned up at Murrayfield expecting to play a representative Scottish team.

The Scots, feeling rather stiff after their 27-16 win against the Scottish Rugby Union’s President’s XV on Saturday, decided not to play, and the New Zealanders, training on an adjoining ground, offered to step into the breach.

Colling was injured when tackling a player. He had not

been included in the President’s XV to play at Galashiels on Wednesday.