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Balliol's current master, Sir David Lindsay Keir, is a legal scholar who maintains Jowett's old stress on under graduate minds and muscles via stiff classics, intimate tutorials, rugger and rowing. Graduate research is still rare at Balliol, but science is finally getting its head; of the 39 fellows, nine are scientists and mathematicians. The, others remain brilliant eminences in philosophy or Sanskrit-men like Theodore Tylor, tutor in jurisprudence and one of Britain's best bridge players, although he is almost blind...
...Absolute Natural." Burton trained as a navigator, but the war ended before he could fly missions. He spent the next two years playing rugger for the R.A.F. He has never saved a single theatrical notice, but he will unblinkingly refer anyone to "page 37, paragraph i of Rugger, My Life" a book by Wales's own Bleddyn Williams, the Red Grange of Rugby. "I played with a wing-forward," writes Williams, "who soon caught the eye for his general proficiency and tireless zeal. His name: Richard Burton. But it was in CinemaScope that he caught the eye after...
...Zealand holds the rugby crown, symbol of supremacy in the rugger playing world. Perennial challenger for the title is the Union of South Africa's all-white Springbok team. The Springboks journeyed to New Zealand in 1956, cheerfully played-and were soundly beaten-by the All-Blacks, as New Zealand's national team composed of both whites and Maoris is ironically called. This year the All-Blacks are due to play the Springboks in South Africa. When New Zealand's Rugby Union announced that, to spare Maori players embarrassment from apartheid policies, only white members...
Dawkins soon found that U.S. football and rugby are as different as chalk and cheese. Rugger players wear no padding, kick on the run, cannot block downfield or throw a forward pass. When a back is tackled, he must release the ball so it can be put back in play by the nearest man. Playing for Brasenose College before a handful of fans scattered through bare wooden stands, Dawkins at first pulled a tyro's gaffes. He kept up a steady stream of American-style pepper talk until he learned that tradition allows only the captain to chatter encouragement...
...sport? Well, if it was not much like a Rugger match or punting on the Thames, Britons were having a mighty good time just the same. Half a century ago, London's Daily Mail put up a prize for the first airplane flight across the English Channel, paid French Aeronaut Louis Bleriot $5,000 for buzzing the 31 miles from Calais to Dover in his tiny (25 h.p.) monoplane in 37 minutes. Last week the Daily Mail could think of no better way to celebrate the anniversary than to have a cross-Channel race, this time between London...