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Isn't THIS a Better Way to Accept Defeat?
20 August 2014
John Roughan in the New Zealand Herald recently wondered if the All Blacks of today have lost the art of losing gracefully. The great Fred Allen was a hard man who drove his team's hard for test wins. Nothing else mattered but to win. His teams played tough for 80 minutes. Yet see how he lost so generously here in 1949 - with the South African captain Felix du Plessis. And Fred's team lost all four tests in a row on that tour!
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More Gold for New Zealand rugby at the Commonwealth Games
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RAEBURN PLACE
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The ground hosted internationals up until 1895, and today is the headquarters of the Edinburgh Academicals Club.
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