The Archive · 1939

Draw In Vice-Captain's Rugger

Clever Civilian Tactics Against Strength and

Deadly Tackling; Dickson's Kick Evens Score on a pitch as hard as concrete at the Race Course yesterday afternoon the Club Vice-@aptain's XV drew with the United States Marines Vice-Captain's XV after one of the best rugby matches of the year, each side scoring eight points (one goal and one penalty goal each). The game was, to put it bluntly, a struggle between the vastly superior rugger tactics of the civilians and the physical strength of the Americans, whose outsides could never get moving as a side as their opponents did time after time.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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