The Archive · 1937

Sever's Brilliance Confirmed

Marshall confirms the reports which. have already shown that the match was a splendid one, Outside English pack which invariably got the ball, the work of Unwin, who is very fast and was playing for England for the first time, and Sever's brilliance, proved the turning point and thus gave England their first victory at Murrayfield, England managed, to eat Scotland and Marshall. considers the Scotsmen were lucky that the score was not heavier, but he is not <isposed tp say that England was really the best of the four international fifteens of the year—although the Rainbuegh Acadenieals, Edinbureh findetten ud Seoul fact that Enyland won the cham-Plonship must be regarded as fairly But among Rugger men at 'Home, says, the opinion is that the palm must really go to Ireland as' the best of the year and unlucky to lose against England, who seemed to have an uncanny knack of pulling' their matches out of the fire until they met Scotland, when they won clearly on their merits. The Scottish hree-quarters were good in the centre, but they were outclassed by the Ehglish wings. Playing in the contre was D. J. Macrae, of St. Andrew's University, whose brother has come to Shanghai and is a doughty forward, as is already known,

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