From the match programme:-
"Club Notes"
"We always look forward with the keenest pleasure to the annual visit from our great friends at Newport but on this occasion we are doubly glad to welcome them for are they not the Champion team of the Rugger world to-day? They have played 27, won 26 and drawn one (last Saturday with Cardiff). They had previously defeated their traditional 'foe' from Cardiff three times this season."
"It is not difficult to realise what these four Newport-Cardiff matches per season mean to their respective exchequers - last Saturday the Newport ground was packed with nearly 30,000 in an all-ticket gate, while only several weeks earlier at Cardiff they had a 48,500 gate. It is little wonder then, that the Rugby Club which is the 'Big Brother' in the parent Newport Athletic Club has been able to put their finances on a very flourishing footing, thus benefiting all the other sections such as Bowls, Cricket, Tennis, Hockey and Athletics numbering some thousands."
"One imagines that no club has ever been so often 'Invincible' or nearly so. On looking up old records one finds T. C. Graham's 1851-2 was the first of these playing anything like a modern number of matches (30) but even so there had been a previous 15-game unbeaten record under W. Phillips in 1878-9. In 1894-5 Arthur Gould's team lost just one game and on eight other occasions only two were lost, and then in 1922-3 J. J. Wetter led them through a 39-game programme without loss. So that altogether this high-tension defence of an unbeaten record has occurred over and over again though the numerous one's, two's and three's show where they have just failed. It must be something in the balmy Uskside breezes! Incidentally Jack Wetter is alive and kicking and hopes to visit us to-day. It is a pleasure to welcome such a hero of the past."
"Unfortunately, late in the match last Saturday, Roy Burnett, Newport's brilliant fly-half, had the misfortune to break his collar-bone, so that puts him out of the running for a Welsh cap and deprives us of the pleasure of witnessing his clever running this afternoon."
"Our visitors are contributing K. Jones, R. T. Evans and B. Edwards to the Welsh team to-day, but some of these have not played in all their matches by any means and, moreover, they run an almost equally successful United team manned by good players always ready and anxious to play for the Invincibles. As our Vandals have been even more successful, a trial of strength has been arranged between these two sides at Sudbury on the day the Premiers visit Newport next season."
"To-day we shall be without our three Middlesex men. J. E. Woodward, P. W. Sykes and F. G. Herbert, while R. E. Syrett is in the ranks of the R.A.F. again. Fortunately we have P. G. Yarranton back after a long interval."
"We have had such a shocking spell of weather that we simply had to transfer two of our most attractive matches - Harlequins and Blackheath; the results were that we lost two good 'gates' and did not win either match, though on the run of the play we might easily have had two successes. Quins won 1 penalty goal to nil, and Blackheath drew 6-6, though it was another 'Middlesex' day. The Bath match was played under difficulties, for owing to the Railway trouble, we had to get a motor coach which meant a long and cramping journey on slippery roads ending with an immediate dash on to the field of play."
"The Vandals bit the dust - or should it be mud? - at Southend when a weak side failed for once to rise to the occasion."