NEW ZEALAND SERVICES RUGBY TEAM DEFEATED BY PARIS UNIVERSITY.—In a game plaved at Princes Park, Paris, on Saturday, March 3, before some 4,000 spectators, a New Zealand services fifteen found themselves run off their feet by a faster, fitter, and more enterprising combination. The Kiwis held an 11-point lead which was whittled down in the last 20 minutes of play, and in the last minute of the game the students scored a try, making the result Paris "University 12, New Zealand 11. The Dominion team was J. D. Ridland, E. Grant, R. A. Roper, M. Hill, M. P. Goddard C. Cearv, H. O. A. Stewart, N. A. Klmes. A. W. Wordley, L. P. Wallace, 11. M. McKenzie, F. Crist, It. 'A. Dal'ton, R. W. Squire, D. W. Blick. Upper: A line-out. New Zealanders in the picture, Squire, Dalton, Crists. Blick. Lower: Grant prepares to evade a tackle, with Geary in support, ln'the right background are Stewart and Wordley.
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Evening Star, Issue 25462, 18 April 1945, Page 8
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