bevan's official all blacks profile says that "he is best remembered for games he didn't play and the tour he was not allowed to go on. bevan's career, indeed, is one of the starkest examples of some of the gross stupidities, even injustices, new zealand rugby created for itself by trying for too long to fit in with the colour bar, later formalised as apartheid, being enforced in south africa. bevan should have been the all blacks' number one halfback on the tour of south africa in 1949, but an inadvertent reference to his trace of māori ancestry a year or two beforehand meant he was ruled ineligible to be selected".