COLLEGE RUGBY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 9

COLLEGE RUGBY

ANNUAL TOURNEY

TEAMS ANNOUNCED

The annual Rugoy tournament between Wellington College, Christ's College; Nelson College, and the Wanganui Collegiate School is to be played on the Wellington College grounds next Saturday and Monday. There will tie two matches each afternoon, the first starting at 1.30 o'clock and the second at 3 o'clock. The matches will .be played in spells of 35 minutes, and no replacements will be allowed in the last 15 minutes.

The first match on Saturday will be between Wellington and Christ', and the second between Wanganui and Nelson. If either of the matches is drawn Christ's and Wanganui, as the teams which have had the Longest break since winning the tournament, will go into the final in preference to their respective opponents.

The Nelson and Christ's teams are due to arrive on Thursday morning, and Wanganui at 12.35 p.m. Among the events included in the programme are a dance for the visiting teams in the Wellington College gymnasium en Saturday night, a service at St. Mark's Church on Sunday night, and a reception for old boys and visiting parents in the college dining hall later the same evening.

The teams and college colours are given below. The teams read from the front-row forwards to the fullback:—. .'■■;.-..-..■ .

Nelson College (light arid dark blue). —M. C. Nicholson, E. C. Thorne, D. J. D. McGhie; B. E. Webber; K. J. Healey. E C. D. 3aas, D. B. Chrisp (captain): D. Bay; M. A. McDowell; M. A. X.. r<:ikington, T. A. O'Hara; A. W R Mazengarb, G. E. Holland (vice-captain), T. K. Galuvakadua; J. W. Bryant. Reserves: Forwards, G. b\ Bale, A. M. Hughes; backs, J. S. Boyd-Wilson. B. M. A. Johnson.

Wanganui Collegiate School (white). —R. O. Wells, R. C. Gibbons (vice-cap-tain), J. W. Hoe; *».. H Malcolm, W B. Cameron, R. J. Lane, W. B Higgins; J. A. Humphries; J. R- Meuli; H. L. Jones (captain), K. K. Donald; M. de la C. Davies, I. Barton, G, H. F. Newman; T. W. Smith. Reserves: Forwards, A- F. Laity, D. K. Stephensem: backs, H. S. Logan, G. R. Stratford. Christ's College (black and white).— L. T. Thomson, J. D. O. Ellis, J. G. Cotton; D. W. Ormond, T. W. Milliken, J. V. H. Robinson, M. R. Macdonald (captain); A. M, Henderson; R. L Gordon; S. W. Mills (vice-captain), R. M. Taylor; P. J- Freeth, T. J. Topliss,P. G. Robinson; P. C. Shephant Reserves: Forwards, D. G. Todd. Meredith Kaye, M. G. Rattrayf backs, A, O. S. Prentice. Wellington College (black).—A. H. Bellaraore, J. F. Newman, A. S. Treister; R. M. Campion, S. R. Young, S. A. Livingstone, D. R. Williamson; N McD. Gapes (captain); W. A. Goldstone; R. G Williams, D. F. Mason (vice-cap-tain); P. G. Kissel, R. R. Hargreaves, W. J. Mason; R. T. Barber. Reserves; Forwards, G. J. M. Sweetman, E. Waaka, H. D. Jamieson; backs, T. G. Svensen, J. S. Fleming, W. Porter.