From the match programme
"Welcome to the Champions!"
"Bv THE EDITOR"
"To-day we welcome our old friends and rivals from Newport. They visit the Cardiff Anns Park to play the first of the season's four matches. It might well be the first of four terrific games with the result in doubt right up to the fiiuil whistle of each. Newport have never beaten Cardiff four times in a season - although last season they claimed three wins and a draw - and they will be out to-day to notch the first of a few!"
"They come to us unbeaten with 6 wins in a row after engaging in a draw in the first match of the season at Bristol. It is true that they have not yet touched the form which brought them such fame last season, but they have still proved themselves the most difficult of sides to defeat. Again they have been experimenting with the centre positions and to-day we rind two Welsh Internationals opposing Cardiff in these positions for the first time for many years - Malcolm Thomas and Glyn Davies."
"The pack is virtually the same as that which did so well last season - only one member, the happy-go-lucky Geoffrey Hurst - being absent. Big Ben Edwards is there too, the biggest forward of the lot and a magnificent goal-kicker. May the whole side combine to join Cardiff in an exhibition of football and excitement as was seen on the Arms Park last February. That Newport-Cardiff clash will live for ever in our memories!"
"Cardiff are rather up against it to-day. Following a great revival in form against the "Lions," there came two well-deserved victories over Cheltenham and Pontypool. This appeared to point to a particularly even game with Newport this week only for three players to fall out through injury. Unluckiest of these is Bleddyn Williams, who sustained a fractured cheek-bone in a friendly match at Aberavon on Monday."
"The other two are Derek Murphy and John Phillips. May all three have speedy recoveries. However, it is good to see Des O' Brien back in harness again and his return will strengthen the pack. Last season he was acclaimed as one of the "Five Players of the Year" by the "Playfair Rugby Annual. " A fitting tribute to his work for Cardiff and Ireland."