RUGBY FOOTBALL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22261, 8 November 1935, Page 17

RUGBY FOOTBALL

UNIVERSITY TEAM'S TOUR ARRANGEMENT OF ITINERARY SEVEN GAMES TO BE PLAYED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Thursday The itinerary of the New Zealand University Rygby football team for its tour of Japan next year is:— January 23 —Arrival at Kobe. January 2<>.—v. Kwansni (Western) picked team, at South Koshicn. January 30.—v. Kwanto (Eastern) picked team, at Mciji Shrine Stadium (Tokio). February 2.—v. Kwanto, No. 1 Student team, at Meiji Shrine Stadium. February s.—v. Combination of Kwanto students, Nos. 2 and 8 tenms, at Meiji Shrine Stadium. February 9.—v. All-Japan students, at Meiji Shrine Stadium. February 11.—v. Kigensetsu and Kwnnsai students, at Hanazono (Osaka). February 10.—v. All-Japan students, at Hanazono. February 17. —Depart from Nagasaki. The New Zealand team is us follows: Backs.—McAtiliss (Canterbury), Rae (Victoria), Gillies (Otago), Parsons (Canterbury), Fookes (Otago), Wild (Victoria), Lewis (Auckland), Grant (Auckland). Watt (Otago), Jones (Otago). Bush (Auckland), Tricklebnnk (Victoria). Forwards.—Burke (Canterbury), Thomas (Auckland). Stace (Canterbury), Chapman (Otago), Eade (Victoria). Simmes (Otago), Drake (Auckland), McVeagh (Auckland). F. J. Wilson (Canterbury), Hudson (Canterbury), Green (Otago), Laney (Otago). The team will leave Auckland by the Aorangi on December 23 and will play seven matches in Japan and probably two in Hongkong.