This study takes as its subject the 20 national teams participating in the 15-men world cup rugby of 2003, analyzing the techniques of passing, kicking and running in possession shown by the number nine players (the half-backs) of these terms during the 48 games from the preliminaries to the finals. It is intended to find out whether there is a significant difference among the winning the losing teams in these techniques among the players. The results could be used later for reference in the training of the number nine player and in forging this player's perception of his role in the game. Through statistical analysis, it is known that (1) from paired t-tests. it is found that there is a significant difference (p<.05) in techniques of passing between the winning and the losing team.; and (2) using single variable variance analysis to examine variance in all three aspects of techniques of the number nine players of the national teams, it is found that the only number nine player who showed signific ant variance is the Australian player in techniques in passing the ball during his team's game against Namibia, while all number nine players of other national teams have not shown significant variance in passing, kicking or running in possession.
This study takes as its subject the 20 national teams participating in the 15-men world cup rugby of 2003, analyzing the techniques of passing, kicking and running in possession shown by the number nine players (the half-backs) of these terms during the 48 games from the preliminaries to the finals. It is intended to find out whether there is a significant difference among the winning the losing teams in these techniques among the players. The results could be used later for reference in the training of the number nine player and in forging this player's perception of his role in the game. Through statistical analysis, it is known that (1) from paired t-tests. it is found that there is a significant difference (p<.05) in techniques of passing between the winning and the losing team.; and (2) using single variable variance analysis to examine variance in all three aspects of techniques of the number nine players of the national teams, it is found that the only number nine player who showed signific ant variance is the Australian player in techniques in passing the ball during his team's game against Namibia, while all number nine players of other national teams have not shown significant variance in passing, kicking or running in possession.