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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 28 May 1932, Page 8

George Beamish, big forward of the British Rugby team in 1930, who has been captaining Ireland of late, announced a few weeks ago, that the 1931-32 season probably would be his last in “big” Rugby, although he may assist the Royal Air Force for another year. In club Rugby Beamish played for Leicester, as well as for his unit of the R.A.F. A remarkable record in club Rugby in England has been set up by the Liverpool University team. In five months of football, the team played 37 matches, winning -35, drawing one, and losing one, and scoring 820 points against 208. Its one loss was suffered on a day -when four of its men were playing for Lancashire against Northumberland and three other first-team men were absent, and its drawn match occurred when its four county men were away. From the beginning of the new term, in January, to the end of the season the team played 18 matches and won them all. Of the 820 points now fewer than 627 were scored by five backs, two of -whom have been members of the side only since the turn of the year. One centre threequarter, J. Heaton, scored 346 points —42 tries and 103 goals, conversion, field and penalty—in the season. The other centre three-quarter scored 42 tries, one of the regular wing threequarters scored 31 tries, and the other scored 20. The fly-half scored 13 tries.