Union in New Zealand was subtler and less dogmatic than its British counterpart in trying to restrict league’s growth. An amnesty was granted to outstanding former league players such as 1920s Auckland hero Karl Ifwersen and mid-century full-back Bob Scott but at the same time, as Massey ...
Few men during rugby union’s amateur era provided a more shining example of how to give something back to the game than Stan Oswin. An Oxfordshire solicitor who started his life-long love affair with rugby union as an Oxfordshire schoolboy, he gave yeoman service as a flanker to his belove...
He's a good footballer as well as a good athlete."Sivivatu, who is 6ft 1in and tips the scales at 15 and a half stone, first surfaced in New Zealand's provincial championship while still a schoolboy.Last week he lit up the All Blacks trial when scoring two brilliant tries for the ...
The "24 Hours of Le Mans" endurance contest has been held in France each year since 1923, and rivals only the Indianapolis 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix in terms of its prestige. “Since I was a schoolboy, my ambition was to race at Le Mans,” Pink Floyd's Nick Mason told RobbRepor...
won the New Zealand junior championship in 1906, and the senior championship in 1910. NicknamedTiny, a schoolboy contradiction of his height of more than6 feet,Freybergalso played rugby, rowed, boxed, and sailed. His dental apprenticeship in Wellington until 1907 was followe...