A piece of plastic made headlines at the Rugby World Cup in France recently when Samoan fly halfLima Sopoaga took to social media for help finding his lost kicking tee.
The former All Black left it on the side of the pitch while he signed autographs following Samoa's 43-10 win over Chile in Bordeaux. It was gone when he went back to collect it.
Burgess was someone who"was really interested in doing things that benefited the game and made it better, sped up slow passages in play," said Mark Wyatt, another former Canada skipper."Goal-kicking being one of them." Burgess, who died in February 2018 at the age of 85, was an all-round sportsman who played for Canada against the famed Barbarians all-star invitational side in 1962. He went onto become a respected teacher and coach and was inducted into both the B.C. Sports and Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame.
"The first one he came up with was a Styrofoam design. Because it was really easy to work with. So the first ball I hit, we actually blew the tee apart," Wyatt recalled with a chuckle."It was back to the design phase pretty quickly." One he settled on the design, in a stroke of genius, Burgess got Tetley to sponsor the tee, which was sold as the Tetley tee."To advance it into the game, and having the IRB change the rules of the sport to allow a kicking tee to be used, was one of the highlights certainly of his sporting and coaching career and life obviously," he added.
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