ALL BLACKS ON TOUR.
TEAM FOR FIRST TEST.
A STRONG SIDE SELECTED.
DALLEY BEHIND THE SCRUM. CONFIDENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA. i lAustralian and X.Z. Press Association. DURBAN, June 2S. The New Zealand test team for tomorrow is:— Fullback: Lindsay. Threequarters: Grenside, C'arleton, Robilliard. | Five-eighths: Strang, Johnson. Halfback: Dalley. Wing-forward: Scrimshaw. Front row: Swain, Hadley. Middle vow: Maurice Brownlie, Alley, Finlayson. Back row: Stewart. Hazlett. The whole of South Africa is emphatic that the Springboks will win. but the New Zealand team is more confident than , ever. The general opinion of the New Zoalanders travelling with the team is: " We cannot lose if we get 35 per cent, advant- | age in the scrums. The backs should carry the day in all big Rugby matched." It is sure to bo a. great forward battle, with an occasional run among tho backs, and vour correspondent's opinion is that Now Zealand will win.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19986, 30 June 1928, Page 12
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