N.Z. RUGBY TACTICS.
LIKED BY IRISHMEN. TO BE GIVEN A TRIAL. CLUBS GREATLY INFLUENCED. The international Rugby player, Kershaw, writing in the Evening Standard, says he understands that the experiment with the New Zealand formation of eight backs and seven forwards will be tried in one team engaged in the Irish trial match against the other team using the orthodox eight pack. It is an open secret that clubs in the South of Ireland are deeply influenced by the theories ,so attractively put into ractice during the last visit of the All Blacks. The Irish internationals, Crawford and Browne, took pains to get firsthand from Porter, Richardson and Nicholls an explanation of the New Zealanders’ strategy, and striking evidence was furnished at Oxford last week, when Dublin University, playing the New Zealand formation, heavily defeated Oxford University Greyhounds. It is not only Irishmen who have been impressed by New Zealand strategy.
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Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16656, 28 November 1925, Page 5
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