UNIVERSITY RUGBY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21503, 29 May 1933, Page 11

UNIVERSITY RUGBY

SECOND TEST DECIDED NEW ZEALAND'S EASY WIN TWENTY-FIVE POINTS TO NIL AUSTRALIA'S POOR DEFENCE [BT TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 DT7NEDIN, Sunday The New Zealand University team defeated the touring team from the Australian universities by 25 points to 0 at Carisbrook yesterday. The packs were fairly evenly matched, but the defence of the Australian backs was poor, and Fookes and Caughey repeatedly found openings to send TJttley and Dunne away on thd wings. The score,however, was not a fair indication oil the merits of the teams, as + .he tralians several times just failed tof

finish off good movements when within! a few yards of tho New Zealand line«

The Australian forwards were superior' on the line-outs, but the heavier Newf Zealand pack more than held its owrfin the tight. Andrews was the outstand* ing forward and played a tireless games in the final quarter of an hour, whert he was definitely on top. The visitors' side-row men broke very quickly froraf the scrums and practically smothered Rae during the greater part of the day« Ruff played a splendid game at full-* < back and, in addition to gaining bigg stretches of ground with his kicking to touch, he converted several tries front extremely difficult angles. Andrews' Fine Try The tackling of the -visitors warf poor, and they took far too many; risks in opening up the game< A sensational movement followed the kick-off. A forward threw the ball back to Rae, who sent the backs away with a rush, and Caughey put in a strong run down the sideline, but ha was pulled down when close to the Australian line. For the next half-hour; play, although hard, • was rather uninteresting, Australia having slightly tho better of the game and Rae being smothered at the base of the 6crum by the fast-breaking Australian forwards* The first score came late in the spell, Andrews breaking into an Australian passing rush near half-way. The visiting backs were caught all out of position and the Canterbury forward ran fully 40 yards io score well out. The attempt to convert was a failure. A few minutes later Rae kicked a\ penalty goal from an easy position* From the kick-off Hamilton fielded ther ball and threw a long pass to Rae. The whole New Zealand back line joined up in a beautiful passing movement which took play from one end of the field to the other. "A forward pass caused the attack to break down, but from the resulting scrum Rae whipped the ball out on the blind side to Mulviiiill, wha sent on to TJttley, the last-named diving across at the corner for a try whichRuff converted. Opening by MuMhill The early portion of the second spell was colourless* and certainly not up to university test standard. Ruff kicked a* goal from a penalty 35 yards out and for the next quarter of an hour thaf Australians were doing most of the at-# tacking, but the defence of the New; Zealand backs was very solid. New Zea-t land's attempts at passing, however* were quickly broken up by the Aus-* tralian backs, who were getting tof their opponents very quickly. At length Fookes managed to break through, and he sent Dunne away down the wing. Dunne outpaced Rowe to score and Ruff converted. .

The New Zealand forwards now began' .to get the upper hand and, following a'' forward rush, Mulvihill secured and broke through to the Australian line* where he threw the ball out to Service., who raced across. The kick at goal missed. In the final two minutes of the game Edwards went straight through the opposition to within 15 yards of the line and passed to Uttley ,who dashed across wide out. The kick failed and game ended:—New Zealand, 25; Aus--tralia, 0. TEAM FOR THIRD TEST FIVE AUCKLANDERS CHOSEN [bt telegraph—OWN correspondent] "WELLINGTON", Sunday The following Rugby team has been selected by Mr. J. Millard to represent the New Zealand Universities against the touring Australian Universities' team at Christchurch on June 3: —Fullback, Bush (Auckland); threequarters,Dunne (Otago), Caughey (Auckland),Milliken (Auckland); five-eighths, Fookes (Otago), Uttley (Otago); halfback, Rae (Otago); forwards, Deidrieh, (Wellington), Edwards (Wellington) * Stacey (Auckland), Drake (Auckland),Macfarlane (Otago), Andrews (Canter--bury).