How Jake managed to keep it in the family

PETER JACKSON 

IN 25 Tests for the Wallabies over a period of eight years, Greg Cornelsen scored four tries. They all came in the same match, against the All Blacks at Eden Park in 1978 which made the Queensland No.8 the first forward to score that many in a major international. Kiwis with long memories had good reason, therefore, to be apprehensive when they saw the name resurface in Tokyo last weekend. Jake Cornelsen, a serious chip off the old block, lined up in the second row for Japan and did the family proud. In the course of giving the All Blacks a mighty scare before ...

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