The Star

6 Thursday June 8 2017
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Lions Tour
Match against Crusaders rekindles
As the Crusaders prepare
to take on the British and
Irish Lions on Saturday
night Gordon Findlater
looks back on the 1971
Battle of Lancaster
Park. The Lions beat
Canterbury 14-3, but the
game is remembered
more for its action away
from the ball
ANY TIME the Lions and
Christchurch are mentioned in
the same sentence, rugby purists
will immediately think of the
1971 match against Canterbury.
Not generally for the rugby,
but the biff.
The seeds for
that violent encounter
had been
sown in the two
previous Lions
tours, when Canterbury
upset the
Fergie
McCormick
tourists 20-14 in
1959, and narrowly
lost 8-6 in
a bruising match in 1966.
Canterbury’s Fergie McCormick,
who played in all three
matches, said the toughness of
those games led to the violent
PUNCH UP: Alex Matheson carrying the ball for Canterbury.
Away from the ball, Lions forward Sandy Carmichael clutches
his face on the ground as Alistair Hopkins (right) exits the scene.
encounter in 1971.
“They were a very strong Lions
team in 59, we had a pretty
strong Canterbury team though
with a lot of All Blacks including
Tiny Hill who captained that
team. We virtually had an All
Black side,” said McCormick.
In the United Kingdom the 71
game was seen as a premeditated
assault to slow the Lions down
ahead of the test series against
the All Blacks. In 2007 the game
ranked sixth in a ‘top 50 imperfect
sporting moments’ article
by The Daily Telegraph, four
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spots ahead of the Tana Umaga
and Keven Mealamu’s tackle on
Brian O’Driscoll in 2005 (also in
Christchurch).
Canterbury and All Black
legends Tane Norton and
McCormick tell a different story
from the famous match, refusing
to suggest the violence was
started by the men in red and
black.
“The Lions started it. We
were on attack and Jake Burns
was coming back into position
and one of their locks slogged
him one. Our boys retaliated of
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The game is best remembered
for sending the Lions’ two front
line props home early after
receiving broken bones in the
bruising and bloody game.
Scottish prop Sandy Carmichael
sustained a multiple
fracture of his left cheekbone
and Irish prop Ray McLoughlin
a chipped bone at the base of
his left thumb. Both returned to
Britain for treatment and recuperation.
Carmichael was allegedly
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persistently boring in on Norton,
blocking his view of the ball
entering the tunnel at the scrum.
He was warned twice by Canterbury
prop Alister Hopkinson but
continued to infringe. He was
then dealt to.
“All I heard was Alister Hopkinson
say, if he (Carmichael)
does this again then I’m going to
give him one. I thought, I don’t
really know what he’s doing but
never mind I’ll find out, and at
the next scrum he gave him one
all right,” said Norton.
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