HIGH STANDARD OF PLAY IS SEEN AT OPENING OF RUGBY SEASON
Something like the standard of many pre-war games was reached by senior teams when the 1950 rugby season got under way at Whakatane and in the Rangitaiki Union on Saturday. Indications that the season may be one of the best yet experienced were well in evidence by the particularly fine games that were played and the obvious desire to play good football. At Whakatane and Taateatua games were watched by large crowds and at Whakatane Field especially the crowd was larger than any seen at a club match last year. The weather was brilliantly fine Following the third grade and junior games, which provided some stimulating curtain raisers to whet the appetite the crowd settled down expecting the football usually seen at the beginning of the season. In this they were disappointed for in the Wairaka-Poroporo game they were treated fo hard and fast rugby while Taneatua and Paroa displayed one team with a fast set of backs trying to meet the monotonous attacks of a fast, bustling pack, which, in the end, carried the day.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 28, 1 May 1950, Page 5
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187HIGH STANDARD OF PLAY IS SEEN AT OPENING OF RUGBY SEASON Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 28, 1 May 1950, Page 5
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