From the match programme:-
"Our Visitors • • •"
"Today, after a switch from the Rugby Union ground which is somewhat waterlogged, we again welcome Newport to London. Their record is formidable—played 18; won 12; drawn 2 and lost 4."
"Last December, the Harlequins won at Twickenham by 9 points to 3 but, on that occasion, the home side did not have to contend with the demands of an English Trial which robs them, this afternoon, of David Marques, John Currie, John Willcox and Howard Hoare. As some compensation for that, however, Dick Leonard, who was playing for Somerset last week, returns to the left wing."
"Both sides have introduced interesting new half backs this season - the Newport fly half is G. Evans, whose rise to fame over the last two months culminated in an excellent trial last week - and playing for the first time in the Harlequin 1st XV is M. S. Palmer, an Oxford University Greyhound and a last year’s Welsh Schools cap."
"We also welcome to the White City this afternoon as spectators, the Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, U.S.A. team which played against a Harlequin XV at their Teddington ground this morning."