All Blacks To Play School

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31082, 10 June 1966, Page 13

All Blacks To Play School

Four All Blacks are included in the Cantabrians side to play against the Christchurch Boys’ High School first fifteen at Straven road next Wednesday.

They are R. M. Smith, P. B. Vincent, D. J. Graham and J. N. Creighton. Another, B. P. Molloy, is in the reserves.

Also in the side are three promising young players who have left school in the last

The Cantabrian club plans to field a similar team against Linwood H.S. first fifteen later this season.

year or two and were members of their first fifteens. These players are M. Toner, who was captain of the Shirley B.H.S. first fifteen last season, G. Wilkinson, a former member of the St. Andrew’s College side, and H. Cottrell, formerly a member of the Christ’s College first fifteen. A fourth young player, J. Ryan, who was in the St. Bede’s first fifteen last year, has been named in the reserves.

Other prominent players included in the side are D. C. Leary, P. A. Hutchison, N. S. Roberts, N. Teague, C. R. Hockley, T. Moynihan—all former Canterbury representatives—T. Mehrtens, a junior AH Black last season, and A. G. Steel, an All Black trialist this season and current national sprint champion. Three members of the team are at present teaching at Christchurch Boys’ High School: Steel, Vincent and Graham.