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Rugby Matters: Merve didn’t swerve the SA ‘Zombies’!

Wales and Lions great Mervyn Davies wrote about the 1971 Invincibles tour for the school magazine where he taught, Emanuel School

JUST occasionally you get an unexpected, retrospective glimpse at some of our biggest names and greatest players from yesteryear and that happened this week when I was delving into the rugby history of Emanuel School, which appears on Page 36 of The Rugby Paper edition.
Meryn Davies was famously a teacher and coach at Emanuel between 1970 and 1972 and we, the awestruck opposition players, probably remember him almost as much as his Emanuel disciples. I remember him one chilly match day on the touchline at the Whitgift U13 Sevens, cool as hell in his brown Hush Puppies and faded brown cord j...

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