Test Match No. 15: NZ All Blacks Colts' (U23) first visit to Japan, game 3

日本語 Photo Article Journal
2 March 1958 at Heiwadai Athletic Stadium
●Japan 3-34 NZ Colts○
Failed to defend against onrushing NZ Colts
 
Data:
02/03/58, 1st Test
Japan 3 New Zealand Under 23 34
Heiwadai Stadium, Fukuoka
Half-time: 3-16
Referee: Daisuke Kawata (Japan)
Touch Judges: unknown
Crowd: 15,000
 
JAPAN: 15 Hidehiko Sato, 14 Kunio Miyai, 13 Tatsuya Aoi, 12 Hiroshi Teranishi, 11 Rikio Enomoto, 10 Taisei-Shigehiro Arai, 9 Koichi Imamura, 8 Masaaki Matsushige, 7 Yoshiharu Umei (capt), 6 Toshiaki Tsuchiya, 5 Yutaka Katakura, 4 Katsuhiro Mano, 3 Terukazu Fuji, 2 Koji Kikkawa, 1 Yoshiaki Kaimoto.
Penalty Goal: Arai.
 
NEW ZEALAND Under 23: 15 Patrick Timothy Walsh, 14 Raymond Reginald ‘Mick' Cossey, 13 E.J. Thompson, 12 James Russell Watt, 11 Terence Raymond Lineen, 10 Ross Handley Brown, 9 Kevin Charles ‘Monkey' Briscoe, 8 A. Hayes, 7 A.J. Soper, 6 Ernest Arthur Rex Pickering, 5 K.E. Barry, 4 Colin Earl ‘Pine Tree' Meads, 3 A.G.E. Rowlands, 2 John Neville Creighton, 1 Wilson James Whineray OBE (capt).
Tries: Brown (2), Meads, Whineray, Lineen, Watt, Thompson, Rowlands, Briscoe, Cossey; Conversions: Barry (2).
 
Scoring sequence (Japan's score shown first): 3min-try NZ U23, Meads; conv. Barry-0-5, 21min-pen Japan, Arai-3-5, 22min-try NZ U23, Whineray; conv. unkown (missed)-3-8, 36min-try NZ U23, Lineen; conv. unknown (missed)-3-11, 39min-try NZ U23, Brown; conv. unknown-3-16, Half-time, 43min-try NZ U23, Brown; conv. unknown (missed)-3-19, 57min-try NZ U23, Watt; conv. unknown (missed)-3-22, 61min-try NZ U23, Thompson; conv. unknown (missed)-3-25, 64min-try NZ U23, Rowlands; conv. unknown (missed)-3-28, 75min-try NZ U23, Briscoe; conv. unknown (missed)-3-31, 79min-try NZ U23, Cossey; conv. unknown (missed)-3-34.
 


This year's All Blacks Colts was a strong team. Many of the members were later chosen for the All Blacks and other representative teams. In the first test match in Fukuoka, Japan scored only one penalty but no tries. New Zealand, on the other hand, scored ten tries and crushed Japan.
The reason for Japan's defeat was that both the forwards and the backs were out of form. In addition, their unexpectedly bad tackling became the driver of the opponent's scoring spree. Japan's backs have a formidable capability, but they failed to show their usual play today. The ball from the forwards was rarely passed to them successfully, and the pass-out among the three-quarter backs was notably bad, too. The backs exposed their poor defensive capability.