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31 December 2014
Golly! They never seem to sleep at www.planetrugby.com ! While we is New Zealand are in full summer holiday mode the great website continues on and on! Check out this list of their best moments and numbers from 2014. And thanks again to them.
http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,16016_9625233,00.html
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The second 'Barbed Wire' test match of 1981; and South Africa fights back.
The dramatic test at Athletic Park has SA winning 24-12. More protests in the Wellington Streets but the three-test series is set up at one-all.
Buller, Wellington, and Scotland
2 internationals for New Zealand 1921
8 internationals for Scotland 1924–29
One of a number of players to have played for more than one country, Aitken came from Buller in New Zealand’s South Island. He made his first-class debut as a teenager before the outbreak of World War I and resumed his career after the war.
Aitken’s debut for New Zealand in 1921 was in the first test against South Africa – the first game between the two countries.
Two years later Aitken, having been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, was in England studying at Oxford University. After becoming an Oxford rugby blue he won his first cap for Scotland in 1924. (He had Scottish parents.)
George Aitken was a centre of considerable speed and talent. He is perhaps best remembered in the rugby world as part of a very fast and dangerous Oxford University three-quarter line, all of whom joined him in the Scottish international team at various times.
Who were the players who first took successfully kicked test match penalties past the 6,7,8, and 9 World Record Marks?
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7 January 2015 (9 years ago)
Mooloomagic
Nice tribute to Jack Hazlett, Keith. I enjoyed reading your obituary and I appreciate that you write obituaries for those All Blacks that have moved on.