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The All Blacks beat USA by 51-3 at Berkeley, California. The result plus big defeats by Australia in 1914 helped USA concentrate on their own football!

AZZURRI, THE

The nickname for the Italian rugby team. The word translates straight from the Italian word for ‘blue’. The Italian football team originally adopted the nickname but with the rise of a national rugby prominence in Italy the rugby team also has the name attached to it. Both sports teams of Italy wear, of course, azure blue playing strip.

In 1938, when New Zealand Maori toured Fiji played in boots for the first time. But a number of players took them off and threw them aside during the test matches.