CHARLIE OLIVER HAS PLAYED BOTH CRICKET AND FOOTBALL ON SYDNEY CRICKET GROUND
QNE of the few 1929 All Blacks who have been spoken of by Australian critics as being up to the best New Zealand standard is Charlie Oliver, who was put out of action in the second Test at Brisb a n e last Saturday with a nasty head injury. Oliver first made a name for himself in Canterbury football three or four years ago as a brilliant centre, but latterly has been playing five-eighth. At one stage, he gave promise of being a better cricketer than a footballer, and was a member of Tom Lowry’s side which toured England in 1927 and played on the self-same Sydney Cricket Ground where the All Blacks will meet Australia in the third Test tomorrow. Last year, Oliver got his chance in big football, playing for the All Blacks against New South Wales, and thus establishing an international double in football and cricket, which had only twice before been achieved—by Ces Dacre (Auckland) and George Dickinson Dunedin).
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 725, 26 July 1929, Page 7
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175CHARLIE OLIVER HAS PLAYED BOTH CRICKET AND FOOTBALL ON SYDNEY CRICKET GROUND Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 725, 26 July 1929, Page 7
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