SOME HIGH FIGURES T F the New Zealand team goes - 1 through South Africa with an unbeaten record it will not be the first to achieve that distinction. The first English team, in 1891, won the whole of its 19 matches, in which it scored 222 points to 3. South African football, of course, has made giant strides since, the last British team in 1924 winning and losing nine matches and drawing three others, scoring 175 points to 155. But that team would not be com pared with the present All Blacks, in point strength. The most extraordinary records by a New Zealand team were those of 1913 in the United States, when they scored 610 points to 6; in Australia in 1903, when they scored 276 points to 12 in seven matches, and in Great Britain in 1905 with 830 points to 39.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 13
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144Page 13 Advertisements Column 2 Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 13
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