Special - All Blacks V. Llanely (1953)

Llanelly, Wales. LV General rugby play, New Zealand’s All Blacks attacking. Play dissolves into a loose scrum. CU scrum. LV All Blacks break away from scrum and run diagonally across field. Ball goes out of play (from resulting line out and scrum R.H. Williams was offside and a penalty was given). CU two men in Welsh Regiment uniform. SV Jarden kicking penalty goal. Ball between posts. CU soldier and goat mascot. LV Denzil Thomas dribbling through midfield gap, he picks up and dashes towards All Blacks line. Passes to R. Thomas who dashes forward, draws two All Blacks before passing to Tucker. Tucker touches down amidst great enthusiasm. LV crowd cheering. LV Llanelly attack again... after halting All Black run, Denzil Thomas again bursts through from a brilliant cross field run before passing to Sanders. Sanders find touch in spite of a beefy charge by R. White. LV crowd. LV All Blacks attack... A kick ahead is intercepted by Welsh forward but stopped by All Blacks line up. An All Black it and tries to
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