Test Match No. 20: The Oxford and Cambridge combined team first visit to Japan, game 6

日本語 Photo Journal
27 September 1959 at Hanazono Rugby Stadium
●Japan 6-54 the Oxford and Cambridge combined team○
Oxford and Cambridge warded off Japan
 
Data:
27/09/59, 1st Test
Japan 6 Combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities 56
Hanazono Rugby Grounds, Osaka
Half-time: 3-21
Referee: Daisuke Kawata (Japan)
Touch Judges: unknown
Crowd: 8,000
 
JAPAN: 15 Yozo Matsuoka, 14 Kunio Miyai, 13 Kenji Ishii, 12 Hiroshi Teranishi, 11 Rikio Enomoto, 10 Masato Hirashima, 9 Koichi Imamura, 8 Kazuhisa Tsutsumi-Tatsuno (capt), 7 Hideki Tominaga, 6 Kinichi Miyajima, 5 Kenji Otsuka, 4 Seiji Tanaka, 3 Teruyasu Yuki, 2 Kiichirou Akatsu, 1 Kiyoshi Kobayashi.
Try: Enomoto; Penalty Goal: Miyajima.
 
COMBINED OXFORD (O) and CAMBRIDGE (C) UNIVERSITIES: 15 Thomas J. Baxter (O), 14 A.C.B. Hurst (O), 13 Lawrence Dursley Watts (O), 12 J.T. Hodgson (C), 11 Michael Richard Wade (C), 10 Howell John Davies (C), 9 Anthony O'Connor (O), 8 A. John Herbert (O), 7 S.H.Wilcock (O), 6 David Anthony MacSweeney (C), 5 David Gordon Perry (C), 4 Victor Sysney James Harding (C), 3 Denis Jesson (O), 2 Lodewyk Theodorus Lombard (O), 1 D.R.J. Bird (C).
Tries: Wade (3), Hodgson (2), Hurst (2), D.A. MacSweeney (2), H.J. Davies, A.J. Herbert, Watts; Conversions: Watts (9);
Penalty Goals: Watts (2).
 
Scoring sequence (Japan's score shown first): 12min-try Ox-Bridge Univ., Hodgson; conv. Watts-0-5, 17min-try Japan, Miyajima-3-5, 21min-try Watts; conv. Watts (unknown), 24min- try Ox-Bridge Univ., Wade; conv. Watts (unknown), 31min-drop goal, H.J. Davies (missed), 34min-try Ox-Bridge Univ., Hurst; conv. Watts (unknown), 40min-try Ox-Bridge Univ., D.A. MacSweeney; conv. Watts (unknown)-3-21, Half-time, 43min-try Japan, Enomoto; conv. unknown (missed)-6-21, 47min-try Ox-Bridge Univ., unknown; conv. Watts (unknown), 49min-try Ox-Bridge Univ., unknown; conv. Watts (unknown), 66min-try Ox-Bridge Univ., Watts; conv. Watts (unknown), time of 4 more tries unknown, but L.D. Watts totaly coverted nine tries-6-54.
 


Some of the reasons for this defeat were: (1) incomplete (or lack of) strategies, (2) poor combination, (3) lack of harmony in defence, and (4) inaccurate kicking. It was as if each member of a jumbled team was playing an individual event, so the result was inevitable.