A Running Commentary on the Rugby Union Football Match by Captain H. B. T. Wakelam
Relayed from Murrayfield, Edinburgh.
By courtesy of The Scottish Rugby Union.
(Copyright, See notice on page 59)
Today listeners are to hear from Murrayfield a running commentary on the first international match this year against the All Blacks, without exception the most brilliant Rugby football team the world has ever seen.
It is a curious fact that the only men who have beaten them in Great Britain are the men of Wales. In their first visit here in 1905 they were only beaten once-by Wales. In their second visit in 1924 they were not beaten at all, and the only team to draw with them was Wales. This year they were beaten for the first time since their first triumphant visit-by Swansea.
On their first visit they scored 868 points in the internationals and only forty-seven were scored against them. On their second visit they scored 721 points against 112.
The remaining internationals will be broadcast as follows:
December 7 versus Ireland; December 21 versus Wales; January 4 versus England.