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Arresting sight of Coulman’s solo gallop

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

AT Twickenham more than 50 years ago, Mike Coulman did something that had not been seen there before or since: a prop galloping ‘fully 30 yards’ for a solo try.
That it proved just enough for England to retain the Calcutta Cup on a spring day in 1968 made his stampede all the more significant. The Moseley loosehead went careering over as if he had flicked a turbo-charger into overdrive, leaving the Scots so far in his slipstream that, according to Dan Stansfield’s The Who, When and Where of English International Rugby, ‘nobody laid a finger on him’....

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