Polish Schoolboys Show How Rugby Should Be Played
One of tiie golden rules of Rugby, practised, alas, often too seldom, the art of keeping possession 01 the ball, was forcibly demonstrated by a team of Polish schoolboys in a match with the Wanganui Marist Primary School team on Spriggens Park yesterday afternoon. Soundly coached in tne knowledge that while you have possession of the ball your opponents cannot score, the visitors carried it out. to the letter, and it must have been nearly an all-time record in that, apart from drop-outs, penalty and kicks at goal, not once was the ball kicked by either a forward < back throughout the whole of the game. Tossed around with an abandon that delighted the spectators and bewildered their on r ' r »-’pntG, the Polish lads staged a series of bln runs that almost inevitaoly ended in a try. Truly many senior representative players and coaches could take a leaf out. of these boys’ books in the matter of knowing what to do with the ball when they get it.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 1 July 1948, Page 4
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176Polish Schoolboys Show How Rugby Should Be Played Wanganui Chronicle, 1 July 1948, Page 4
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