Barbarian rugby 1973 v NZ

Barbarian rugby 1973 and JPR Williams neatly sidesteps the last defender to complete a great piece of play.

Barbarians in famous black and white strip

The Barbarian (All Stars) team are playing left to right.

Duckham gets the ball near the 10 metre line close to the near touchline after a New Zealand kick looked as though it would find touch.

He gathers the ball and winds up his speed as he goes past Gareth Edwards the Barbarian number 9.

Watch his beautifully balanced running as he slaloms his way through three New Zealand defenders and then beats a fourth would-be tackler.

A great piece of play follows. The Welsh flanker Quinnell takes possession and gets the ball to the backs who have arrived to support.

Quinnell passes to Dawes, Dawes to Williams. Williams passes to Gibson and sets off to loop behind Gibson. Gibson dummies and shakes off a couple of tacklers before getting the ball away to Slattery.

Slattery(#7) makes ground then passes the ball to JPR Williams (#15)

JPR has only the full back to beat.

Slightly before Williams cleverly feints towards his left, he takes a shortish pace with his right leg.

This helps in throwing his weight as he sidesteps right.

Although the defender undoubtably knows where Williams is going, the change of direction is so significant he leaves the defender sprawling.

JPR goes in to score.

Good sidestep!

It`s on a video tape with loads of others

My VCR says it`s around the 15:20 mark into the
video tape "101 Best Tries - with Cliff Morgan"

It has the heading JPR Williams - 1973 Barbarians v All Blacks

Best to see it in slow motion, see how you do it.

You can also see it on YouTube.

You can see an even more exciting passage of play from the same game on the Barbarians rugby 1973 page.