NEW ZEALAND STRATEGY.
IMPRESSES IRISH FOOTBALLERS
(Reuter’s- Telegram.) (Received November 2(7, 10 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. 26. Tho international Rugby player, Kershaw, writing to the Evening Standard, says be understands an experiment with the New Zealand formation of eightbacks and seven forwards will be tried in one team engaged in the Irish trial match against another using the orthodox eight pack. It i.s an open secret that clubs in the South of Ireland are deeply influenced by theories so attractively put into practice during the last visit of the All Blacks.* The Irish internationals, Crawford arid Browne, took pains to get lir.st-li.it I* front Porter. Richardson, and Nidi oils an explanation of New Zealand strategy, and striking evidence was furnished! a-t Oxford last week when Dublin University, playing the New Zealand formid ion. ’ heavily defeated. University. Not only Irishmen have been impressed bv the New Zealand strategy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 7
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