“England included Prince Obolensky and Owen Smith in the Rugby team to meet the All Blacks,” remarks an Australian scribe. “The principle of including foreigners is wrong—a team representing n country should consist of natives or at. least permanent residents. There are, of course, precedents for the notion of. the English Rugby Union. Allen has figured in English elevens, and Allen was born on Bellevue Hill. Stunliell, the stalwart of the London R.O, eight which swept through Australia last, year, was a Victorian. All the same, the practice is unfair.” The fact that Prince Obolensky came to England as a child, was educated in that, country, and is taking out naturalisation papers surely qualifies him to play for the land of his adoption.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 2
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