Test Match No. 97: New Zealand National Rugby Union Team's first visit to Japan, game 2

日本語 Photo Journal
25 October 1987 at Hanazono Rugby Stadium
●Japan 0-74 New Zealand○
Unable to take the ball and went slumming
 
Data:
25/10/87, 1st Test
Japan 0 New Zealand XV 74
Hanazono Rugby Grounds, Osaka
Half-time: 0-20
Referee: Colin J. High (England)
Touch Judges: Tetsuo Inoue (Japan), Masazo Tsujino (Japan)
Crowd: 11,000
 
JAPAN: 15 Shogo Mukai, 14 Toshiro Yoshino, 13 Eiji Kutsuki, 12 Seiji Hirao, 11 Minoru Okidoi, 10 Katsuhiro Matsuo, 9 Hisataka Ikuta, 8 Sinali Latu, 7 Masahiko Koshiyama, 6 Yoshihiko Sakuraba, 5 Atsushi Oyagi, 4 Toshiyuki Hayashi (capt), 3 Masaharu Aizawa, 2 Tsuyoshi Fujita, 1 Koji Yasumi.
 
NEW ZEALAND XV: 15 John Anthony Gallagher, 14 John James Patrick Kirwan, 13 Barnie Joseph McCahill, 12 Nesetorio John Schuster, 11 Terrence ('Terry') John Wright, 10 Frano Michael Botica, 9 Ian Bruce Deans, 8 Wayne Thomas Shelford (capt), 7 Michael Robert Brewer, 6 Zinzan Valentine (originally Murray Zinzan) Brooke, 5 Gary William Whetton, 4 Brent Leslie Anderson, 3 Richard Wyllie Loe, 2 Sean Brian Thomas Fitzpatrick, 1 Steven Clark McDowell.
Tries: Kirwan (2), Botica (2), Shelford (2), Brewer, Schuster, Gallagher, Deans, G. Whetton, Wright; Conversions: Gallagher (10); Penalty Goals: Gallagher (2).
 
Scoring sequence (Japan's score shown first): 1min-try NZ XV, Kirwan; conv. Gallagher-0-6, 7min-try NZ XV, Brewer; conv. Gallagher (missed)-0-10, 14min-try NZ XV, Shuster; conv. Gallagher (missed)-0-14, 17min-pen NZ XV, Gallagher-0-17, 35min-pen NZ XV, Gallagher-0-20, Half-time, 48min-try NZ XV, Gallagher; conv. Gallagher-0-26, 54min-try NZ XV, Deans; conv. Gallagher-0-32, 56min-try NZ XV, G. Whetton; conv. Gallagher-0-38, 59min-try NZ XV Botica; conv. Gallagher-0-44, 66min-try NZ XV, Wright; conv. Gallagher-0-50, 71min-try NZ XV, Shelford; conv. Gallagher-0-56, 74min-try NZ XV, Botica; conv. Gallagher-0-62, 78min-try NZ XV, Shelford; conv. Gallagher-0-68, 79min-try NZ XV, Kirwan; conv. Gallagher-0-74.
 


The New Zealand All Blacks, who won the first World Cup and became number one in the world in both name and reality, unveiled themselves in Japan for the first time. Japan summoned the strength to fight against them, conceded only three tries and finished the first half 0-20. But that was that. Japan was no match for the All Blacks. They were completely knocked out in the second half. They couldn't even take the ball from them. The All Blacks boasted their speed, power, technique and everything to Japan, did not let them do anything, and won by a wide margin. The All Blacks really came into their own in the second half, scored nine tries and nine goals, and ended the one-sided game 0-74. Japan could do nothing against them. We became acutely aware of the enormous distance that remained to reach the top.