A brilliant display by David Watkins as reported on 12th February 1962 by The Times:-
"NEWPORT'S FLOODLIT SPECTACULAR"
"FROM A STAFF REPORTER"
"Newport 22pts., Leicester 10"
"Saturday night at the pictures is more usual in Wales than Saturday night at the Rugby, but Newport, under their floodlights, provided this weekend what cinema people might call a "box office spectacular". Newport finally won, but until the last third of the game each side was so balanced against the other that often only the bounce of the ball tipped play against them."
"What little superiority Newport had in the line-outs Leicester's pack made up for with faster covering. Neither side outdid the other in the crispness of their tackling; and Newport were as likely as Leicester to bounce from hard pressed defence to sudden attack."
"BROKEN THROUGH"
"It was Newport's greater ability to improvise that won the game, and no better example of this was to be seen than P. Rees's second try. Newport's pack had broken through on the right but faced a seemingly impenetrable defence: out of the impasse came a long cross-kick, which was collected in the centre for Jones to rush through. Rees was up to win the touch-down."
"Paradoxically, it was an opportunist try from a forward, Davidge which spurred Newport to race away at the end. The score was then 11 - 10 and the result might have gone either way."
"Feeling perhaps the absence of K. J. F. Scotland and J. P. Horrocks-Taylor, Leicester found themselves caught too often on the wrong foot by Newport's surging changes of direction. When an attack on one side of the field sagged the ball would flit across again, and one such improvisation ended with Perrott leaping spectacularly into the arms of a defender. One half expected him to be caught gracefully, but he bowled the fellow over and scored a try."
"WILD CHASE"
"For nimbleness and grace of footwork no one rivalled Watkins, Newport's stand-off half, who sped through alone to cap a brilliant performance with the last try of the match. But it was one of Leicester's moves that lingers in the memory as symbolic of an exciting match. From inside his own 25 Greenhow suddenly appeared going fast for the Newport line. Only Perrott seemed likely to catch him, and after a wild chase nearly stopped the try; a pass to Tatham was flipped back again and Greenhow deservedly scored."
"Newport's 22 points were made up of tries by P. Rees (two), Thomas, Davidge, Perrott, and Watkins; N. Morgan converted two. Leicester's tries were scored by Matthews and Greenhow and converted by Robins."
"NEWPORT.- N. Morgan; D. Perrott, T. Pope, B. J. Jones, P. Rees; D. Watkins, W. R. Prosser; D. Greenslade, B. Meredith, N. Johnson, I. Ford, B. Price, B. Cresswell, G. Davidge, A. Thomas."
"LEICESTER.- G. Hopkins; D. W. Bird, M. Greenhow, K. Smith, G. Sheppard; L. Tatham, H. V. White; J. D. Robins, M. R. Walker, F. Chawner, P. Riley, J. M. Jones, G. Almey, C. G. Martin, D. J. Matthews."
"REFEREE.- D. M. Hughes (Llanelly)."