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Ball had to be held for conversions

BRENDAN Gallagher’s article about the 1938 international between England and Scotland was very interesting.
Brendan writes that Scotland had just scored a try, and from the photograph we see the conversion attempt by Will Crawford just having taken place.
He suggests that, “Helping Crawford... with the kick by lightly holding the ball is Duncan Macrae, and as there are no contemporary reports of wind one can only assume that in these prekicking tee days, the ground was too hard to place the ball satisfactorily and Wilson Shaw (Scotland captain) had requested Macrae lend a h...

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