Cheers: Terry McCashin

ONE of the great things about amateur rugby is that so many players enjoyed notable and accomplished lives outside of rugby and that was well illustrated this week with the passing of two multi talented individuals.

Dr Cecil Moss, right, is remembered as being a very considerable Springbok who starred against the 1949 All Blacks, a successful national coach and for many decades as a pillar of the Western Province Union. In medical circles, though, he was much better known as the chief anaesthetist on the day – December 3, 1967 – Dr Christian Bernard c...