Test Match No. 14: All-Australian student team's second visit to Japan, game 9

日本語 Photo Article Journal
25 March 1956 at Hanazono Rugby Stadium
●Japan 6-19 All-Australian student team○
Lost a close game again to suffer three successive defeats
 
Data:
25/03/56, 3rd Test
Japan 6 Combined Australian Universities 19
Hanazono Rugby Grounds, Osaka
Half-time: 0-16
Referee: Daisuke Kawata (Japan)
Touch Judges: unknown
Crowd: 15,000
 
JAPAN: 15 Hidehiko Sato, 14 Kunio Miyai, 13 Haruo Matsuoka, 12 Hiroshi Teranishi, 11 Junzo Aso, 10 Taisei-Shigehiro Arai, 9 Syozaburo Yamamoto, 8 Masaaki Matsushige, 7 Takashi Sudo, 6 Toshiaki Tsuchiya (capt), 5 Ohara Ryuichi, 4 Katsuhiro Mano, 3 Kazuo Natsui, 2 Koji Kikkawa, 1 Teruo Kitajima.
Penalty Goals: Aso, Matsuoka.
 
COMBINED AUSTRALIAN UNVERSITIES: 15 A. Garle, 14 D.B. Hill, 13 John Maxwell Potts, 12 Ainslie Glenister Ross Shiel, 11 Roderick Phelps, 10 Richard Murray Tooth (capt), 9 John Henry Dowse, 8 M. Hughes, 7 John Francis O'Gorman, 6 Carles Roy ‘Chilla' Wilson, 5 D.B. Richardson, 4 W.A. Gahan, 3 T.D. Bolin, 2 W.T. Wright, 1 F.M. Elliott.
Tries: Dowse, Hill, Wilson; Conversions: Dowse (2); Penalty Goals: Dowse (2).
 
Scoring sequence (Japan's score shown first): 1min-pen Aus. Univ., Dowse (missed), 3min-pen Aus. Univ., Dowse (missed), 11min-pen Aus. Univ., Dowse-0-3, 24min-try Aus. Univ., Dowse; conv. Dowse-0-8, 25min-try Aus. Univ., Hill; conv. Dowse-0-13, 30min-pen Aus. Univ., Dowse-0-16, Half-time, 61min-pen Japan, Matsuoka-3-16, 64min-pen Japan, Aso-6-16, 70min-try Aus. Univ., Wilson; conv. Dowse (missed)-6-19.
 


In spite of some drizzle before the game, the stadium was jam-packed with spectators eager to see the long-awaited international match. 29 infringements across both teams indicates how strict the referee Kawata was. Thus the game was stopped repeatedly, and that made it less interesting, to everyone's disappointment. The game was ended with no tries scored. Japan's backs poorly attacked on that day; it was the worst of the three matches so far for the Japanese national team.
In the first half, Australia scored the first points by a penalty in the 11th minute, a try and a goal in the 24th minute, which was immediately followed by another try and goal in the 25th minute, a penalty in the 30th minute, 0-16. Although Japan got as close as 6-16, Australia added another try. The final score was 6-19.