Three Typical HalfBack Tries
Three, half-backs scored tries in senior Rugby matches in Wanganui 'on Saturday. When a half-back scores from a scrum on the line, it is like a little terrier diving over at the foot of a lamp post to catch something on the ground. Gceat big forwards battle in a scrum. Out comes the ball to the half, and, instead of passing to his fiveeighths, he runs in over the very feet of the big men as they straighten to see what has happened. R. Best (Waverley) had ••he longest run of the three who scored that wav on Saturday. The other two were J. Barnett (Technical Old Boys) and M. Dixon (Pirates). After each try was scored people sat hack in the stand and said: “Typical halfback try,’’ which as much in tribute to the player who scored as an indictment of the man who knew that the situation was such that such typical try could be scored.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 2 May 1949, Page 6
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