i- - S 0 - Mungret College Past Pupils' Union

Ufirst half and the Mungret forward,, found theart of Browne, the Munster Interprovincialhooker tote much for them. Behind the scrumhowever thing.; were mire in favour ofM ungre' and the Barbarian backs were wellhelel,Ne.vrrtheie.s; the first half went infavour of Barbarians, Matthews makingground from the scrum sent his line away antiHayes crossed for a try. A less spectaculartry from a breakaway at the line by forwardsgave Ryan a try tha should have been prevented.In the ceconel half Mungret seemedto share thv hail more in set scrunis and fromthe hall'-v.;ev l.y'cih sent O'Brien away forii Ic eel . tie er eel leefore passing toATHLETICS4;iIwhole fifteen. The forwards scrummaged wellbut were slow in the loose. Excellent workwas done by the second row forwards. Ryanand l..'nfesty, ho'h in tight and loose. Thefront row worked hard but Enright was thebest of the three. The hack row were slow ingetting out to defend though their line-outwork was good, particularly that of Joyce andKeane. As a try-out the match was a success.We faced it strong but not very coherentteam and found that our hacks were capableif rising to ths occasion in defence or attack.our forwards hard-working bu slow and wantingin the tactb s if defence, the team howeverfull of fighting spirit.IWe had our Ii rst cut match against St.Munchin's on lieu. s at their home groundThe weather was excellent and we had a galelthough uneven match. Our backs were insplendid form and treated us to a very gooddisplay of football. Our forwards howeverwere not so good. Their heeling was slovenlyand they were slow to hind in loose scrunis.The outstanding features of the play we're' BobO'Brien's clean cuts through. Pat O'Donnell'sstrong running and I. M urtagh's delightfuldrop-goal . We we in c nc f ortal lv by 21 pointsto nil.MUN(RET v. (iLl) QUEEN'SHome.Dec. 15th.The weather is not so kind to us to-day.Neither are the fates. Our captain is in theinfirmary. Nevertheless we do right well andheat it much heavier team by 6 points to nil.Our forwards show a great improvement butthere is still a tendency for the hail to hangin the scrums, The hacks (lid not get muchchance to shine to-day as the ball was verygreasy and difficult to handle but P. O'Donnellgot in one splendid run from which he scored.Old Queen's ..............nil.Iungret ..............6 points.v. BOHEMIANS.Jan. 26th.Home.This was really it splendid game. Ouropponents were a strong team and played goodopen football. Our forwards were much improvedand gave their backs a good deal ofthe ball. Bohemians playing with the wine]were first to score bul this only served to putmore life in Mungret who soon equalised.Bohemians however managed to score againbut Mungret again equalised. After half-timeMungret had the better- if the play and scoredthree tries of which line was converted whileBohemians scored a penalty goal. I). Lynchplayed an excellent game as scrum-half, sendingout beautiful passes which B. O'Brien tankin his stride and was always dangerous. Weare grateful to the members of Bohemiansclub who gave our team this practice.Mux(;RET v. BARBARIANS.Feb. 9th.home.The last match before the cup was suitablya match against it string GacTyowen selectionincluding many\Vell-flOWn Senor players.Mr. Frank Hayes captained the team and tohim we are indebted for an excellent game.The weather was line but a high cross windmade touch-finding almost impossible andaccurate passing very difficult In the setscrums Barbarians held the upper hand in theBack Roe—J. I leeward, P. ;i nu, L. \V;ehdi, J. Jt;errv, C. CSitting -ittilin,f. earcv, J MeNeinci-ce I'. I. K, 11%, lilt I. i il-Ic ccc,ui I. erre;i- e , fill. l_.L' ll•, e;e.ielI, 'I. 1•i. C-Hurlev. Hurley cut through magnificently.drew the defence fully and then sent O'Sheover. This was the lee'st piece of work byeither side in the match.On the whole the team played we-lb but itwas plain that our hacks wer' distinctly thestronger part of the team, \Vhite showedfine form as full, picking we'll. fielding ace'uratelvand showing a guile] sense of position.O'Shea and ()'I)eenne'll were good on the wings;M urtagh and Hurley played stylish footballwhich was good to see' O'Brien and Lynch,were that confidence of all teams, a perfectcombination with O'Brien the strength of theRUGBY.J.C.T.Though we made an early exit from the CU])competition we can scj' we had a very successfulseason. There was great keenness and allcur matches were most enjoyable. Of thetwo out-nm' chic's we won one and put up a verycreditable light in the other. Our first matchwas'.egainst Crescent and was played on avery greasy day and as a result most of theelay was with our forwards who distinguishedthemselves by their loose rushes. Early in'.he first half J. Howard scored a try whichgave us the lead until a few minutes from