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For the second successive year the Nelson Rugby Club's team won the Nelson Rugby Union's senior championship. The team, as well as losing only two of its 13 matches, supplied the representative side with six of its players. The team, from left to right is Back row: G. Soper, P. Gibbons, M. Ri-ach, D. Fowler, P. Hayward, J. Quirk. Second row: A. Brydon, (club captain), T. Sharland, C. Thelin, R. Nell, E. Anderson, T. Phillips, M. Cotton, C. Williams (vice-president). Third row: C. Garguilo (coach), D. Bowater, N. Dayman (vice-captain), N. Barton (captain), W. Reed (president), D. Jones, D. Falconer, F. W. McCormack (secretary). Front row: D. Hodgson, C. Smith, D. Kelly, B. Pawson. (Peter Cooper Studio).