| Description | The big sheet is accompanied by:
- Programme.
- Notes, including a card showing players' positions.
- Memorandum from Michael Hastings, Outside Broadcasts, providing the running order for the match.
- Cuttings and pages from the Evening Standard, The Evening News and other unidentified newspapers regarding this match and England v. Australia on 1 February 1958.
This match was part of the Five Nations Championship. The score was England 6 - 0 Ireland. The big sheet records:
England
Team: [Jim] Hetherington, [John] Young, [Jeff] Butterfield, [Malcolm] Phillips, [Peter] Thompson, [Ricky] Bartlett, [Dickie] Jeeps, [Ron] Jacobs, [Eric] Evans, [George] Hastings, [David] Marques, [John David 'Muscles'] Currie, [Peter] Robbins, [Ned] Ashcroft and [Ronald] Syrett.
Ireland
Team: [Patrick] Berkery, [Tony] O'Reilly, [Noel] Henderson, [David] Hewitt, [Cecil] Pedlow, [Jackie] Kyle, [Andy] Mulligan, [Gordon] Wood, [Ronnie] Dawson, [Patrick] O'Donoghue, [Bill] Mulcahy, [James] Stevenson, [James] Donaldson, [James] Kavanagh and [Noel] Murphy. |