- Mon May 20, 2019 8:58 pm
#96
There's a book in Central Library - "A Century of Rugby at Sale", written by the then-President, Monty Barak, to celebrate the Centenary in 1961, and the fact that Sale are the second oldest club in England (beaten by a few months by Blackheath). Fixture Secretary must have been a pretty easy job! The book quotes the teams for the Centenary match in April 1961, and I thought the names might bring back some extremely old memories for one or two of us:
SALE INTERNATIONAL XV
P R Hartley M Gavins (Leicester & England)
A A Bailey M Price (Pontypool & Wales)
K Nelson M Flynn (Wanderers & Ireland)
W M Patterson (capt.) A Sine (PUC & France)
J Roberts R McCarten (London Irish & Ireland)
F G Griffiths D Baker (OMT & England)
T C Pearson J Williams (Old Millhillians & England)
F Barker C Jacobs (Northampton & England) (capt.)
E Evans L Butler (Blackrock & Ireland)
F Herbert R Prosser (Pontypridd & Wales)
A C Evans A French (St Helens & England)
D M Green A Fremaux (PUC & France)
D Chadwick H Morgan (Abertillery & Wales)
A Copeland W Morgan (Medicals & England)
D Hackett L Rimmer (Bath & England)
There were no replacements, Ken Nelson got injured early in the match, and the Internationals won 20 - 3 (very unsporting of them!).
One other quote from Monty Barak that appealed to me: "too often the kick ahead signals the ineptitude of the player to make any constructive move". Fortunately, we've seen quite a lot less of that this season than in previous years, but it's still horribly valid from time to time.
SALE INTERNATIONAL XV
P R Hartley M Gavins (Leicester & England)
A A Bailey M Price (Pontypool & Wales)
K Nelson M Flynn (Wanderers & Ireland)
W M Patterson (capt.) A Sine (PUC & France)
J Roberts R McCarten (London Irish & Ireland)
F G Griffiths D Baker (OMT & England)
T C Pearson J Williams (Old Millhillians & England)
F Barker C Jacobs (Northampton & England) (capt.)
E Evans L Butler (Blackrock & Ireland)
F Herbert R Prosser (Pontypridd & Wales)
A C Evans A French (St Helens & England)
D M Green A Fremaux (PUC & France)
D Chadwick H Morgan (Abertillery & Wales)
A Copeland W Morgan (Medicals & England)
D Hackett L Rimmer (Bath & England)
There were no replacements, Ken Nelson got injured early in the match, and the Internationals won 20 - 3 (very unsporting of them!).
One other quote from Monty Barak that appealed to me: "too often the kick ahead signals the ineptitude of the player to make any constructive move". Fortunately, we've seen quite a lot less of that this season than in previous years, but it's still horribly valid from time to time.