ROUGH FOOTBALL

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19176, 6 December 1927, Page 6

ROUGH FOOTBALL

IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICAN GAME. [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, December 5. "American football arouses great pub lie enthusiasm," said Mr S. £>• Dean> chairman of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union, who returned from a trip to Honolulu, by the Aorangi. "What delights the crowd most of all," he said, "is players get injured. I saw one match between two schools, which drew a crowd of 15,000. Each school had its own stand. Two girls, each dressed in the school's colours, led dittiea which were sung heartily, and two men led the rival cries." Mr Dean said tliat at another match he witnessed five men were carried on to hospital, and there were continual stoppages, because, of minor injuries. Altnongh the teams played II aside, 28 members of one team arrived on the ground, and 82 for ,the other. There were four officials for each team on the field, and two check-judges on the touch lino. The time-keeper used a revolver instead, of a whistle. Mr Dean says the object of the game is for a player to get a touch-down. When a member of one side makes a run, a fellow team-mate falls in the way of the members of the opposing team. During his stay in Honolulu. Mr Dean got into touch with the Waratahs, and if it can be arranged the New South Wales' team will play' a match at Honolulu on the way home.