FOOTBALL DAYS
THE MUDDIED OAFS ARE AT IT With the start (at long last) 'of the llugby football season we can expect a few hard knocks and bruised shins, but not as many football "casualties" as ir. the American ,"grid-iron" game of so-called football. That alleged gam© is more like all-in wrestling in the opinion of New Zealanders brought up in the tradition of never tackling the man who has not got the ball (thankis to our referees). However, the "talkies from Hollywood have educated us up to the highlights of American strongman football. Here is a poem iculled from an American paper regarding the start of the football season in U.S.A.:— Oh Football Days are here again, The best of all the year. Onei half of Johnny's nose has gone, And Tom has lost an e&r. The seniors and tho juniors Begrimed with dust or mud Right gaily for the ball contend And quit all bathed in blood. The forwards get the halfback down And kick him in, the chest The fullback he is carried home And quictjy laid to rest. Oh great and happy football days! How great • the mother's joy What time she sits and wonders What they're doing to her boy.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 110, 26 May 1941, Page 8
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205FOOTBALL DAYS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 110, 26 May 1941, Page 8
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