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It’s nothing compared to the All Blacks of ‘49

LIFE is hectic for New Zealand national sides right now, what with the Gallaher Cup match against France in Paris last night and Tuesday’s much anticipated extra match against a France XV in Lyon. A riot of rugby but far from un precedented. In fact New Zealand once played two capped Tests on the same day September 3, 1949.
First up in Wellington that day came the Australians. New Zealand were deprived of the 30 players on tour in South Africa but they still boasted three Maori backs who had been excluded from the tour on racial grounds - Johnny Smith, Ben Couch and Vince Bevan &ndash...

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