The match report went thus:
Three minutes to go. The score 3~3. Welsh hopes of the Triple Crown after 39 years were fading, Ireland heeled on their own 22, Jackie Kyle was bound to clear to touch. But Ray Cale pounced round the scrum to harass Carroll. As the scrum half desperately shovelled the ball out to Kyle, Cale went with it. What a fearsome combination for even a fly half of Kyle's quality; a bad pass and a deadly tackler at the same time. The ball rolled loose, but at least Kyle was spared to become a missionary in Africa. Cleaver picked up and fed Lewis Jones (Devonport Services): the winning try was taking shape. Lewis Jones, in his new position of centre, drew full back Norton and sent a long swinging pass out to Malcolm Thomas (Devonport Services). There were 15 yards to go as the Welsh wing threw back his head and ran for the Triple Crown.
Corner flaggers streamed across like a cloud of locusts. They hit Thomas as he dived for the corner, down everyone crashed, corner flag and all. Was it a try?
There were agonising hour-long seconds before referee R.A. Beattie (Scotland) raised his arm and Wales had won.
If Irish touch judge Ossie Glasgow had signalled that Thomas had knocked down the flag before grounding the ball there would have been few Welsh protests. It was a marginal decision either way.