RUGBY FOOTBALL

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15211, 12 April 1923, Page 2

RUGBY FOOTBALL

NEW ZEALAND RUGBY TEAM. TO TOUR BRITAIN NEXT* YEAR. NEWS WELCOMED IN ENGLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union announced to-night that It was practically certain that New Zealand would send a team to England towards the end of 1924. While English Rugby circles are stimulated at the news of a tour of New Zealanders to Great Britain in #924 or 1925, England is in for a lean period as regards the quality of her international Rugby representatives, while Scotland and Ireland are concentrating on the encouragement of youth, according to the.view expressed in Sporting Life by one of the leading Rugby critics in England. "The announcement that there is a possibility of a New Zealand team visiting Britain in the winter of 1924 or 1925," says the critic, "is one that will be received with satisfaction by enthusiasts. We all remember how in 1905 the All Blacks revolutionised the game over here. Nothing previously or since has been seen qurte like that, although in. 1912 W. A. Millar's team from South Africa, the team that achieved the record of winning all its international matches in turn against England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Prance, taugh-t us much that we knew not before. It may well be that another Dominion side may be equally successful in proving to us that team work, and not absolute reliance on individual brilliance, is primarily essential for continued success. It appears to me essential' that we should have a series of unwelcome shocks if we are to improve on our present day