TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA
TO-DAY'S RUGBY TRIAL
For the purpose of selecting twentyfive Bugby players to represent New Zealand in Australia this season, a trial match was played at Athletic Park this afternoon. With the weather ideal and the- players eager to impress the selectors, there was good reason to expect a bright display, and a large crowd assembled at the Park for this holiday attraction.' While bright football carries most favour, it is recognised in view of past experience and of the approaching visit- of a British team that, so far as the forwards are concerned, there is need of hard scrummagers, and it was for this type of player rater than the "shiner" that the selectors were looking to-day. Among the forty-one players being tried out today there was a fair sprinkling of newcomers to international rank, but in the main the candidates were -well known by reason of previous experience in big football. -On the other hand, there, were many notable absentees. Of the players who represented New Zealand in South Africa last year only six were engaged in to-day's trial.
In. the curtain raiser to the big match the Wellington College second fifteen defeated Scots College by 22 points to 6.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 127, 3 June 1929, Page 11
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204TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 127, 3 June 1929, Page 11
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