Rugby: Bristol v. Newton Abbot: these teams turned out for their first match on Saturday, at Newton, where the game was watched by about the largest gate ever seen in the town. … … The play of the Newton backs was marked by sound defence, in which Pearce and Pinsent and Taylor were always prominent … (continued) … Bristol still pressed, and pegged away at the heeling out game, and only Pinsent’s fine tackling and picking up kept the Newton lines intact … (continues) …
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GRO0897 Devonport: William Henry Pinsent: 1874 – 1949