FOOTBALL.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20490, 8 March 1932, Page 15

FOOTBALL.

y0 c-2-3 SCRUM. gjgRNATIONAL RULES OPPOSED. £jgsoAM CLL'B'S DISCUSSION. u"s"- - u®*! iioulJ ,vc iu >,cw 7 : ca ' a t rul ; . . Eugbv football, be dictated *rL English authorities.'" askocl * A. Britten. P resiJcnt of tlic *JL' Football Club, at the annual *L»t evening, when the question of the International * mles was discussed. "S-ecting decided to instruct tbo 5 delegates i« vote against the .jL* motion, to be moved by • VUeon, 1111(1 seconded bv Mi A. .... ""•talL at tbe annual meeting of the rZcrr Rugby Union: "That the by the New Zealand fTrjiiop that all affiliated unions serum formation, and -ft fta wing-forward position, be -Stbr.tha Canterbury Rugby J2f» an experiment for, say, the , Jf* t „ competition matches of the . jgga ie*B°n.'' "ftia Bmf of the Wedge." I jfr Britten said that following the ."LfL of 1930 New Zealand had into the adoption of the rule. That, however, SwaM now realise, was only the of the wedge. Now rules had WtaW" into force that made >t rgLwj for tbe hookers in New Zeaicrum formation to hook legof opinion was all very 3tatMWly the.views of sueli a country a3 New Zealand |S jn riven due weight. "TisrijerMkcd what would be the ilr MePhail, one of the in the event of their Sf latMeted to oppose the motion, iffct'ttolmu: He is a delegate from xnd iu sueh would have to MMdgtfiagainst the motion even it pro forma. ggfc-ftfsk that by adopting the Itt wam yw are going to put the wMnWtlf —* of aetion," said Mr |^swfc' - ''Whether there are eight Nrea' backs, or seven .feinfe'tiA dght backs, one man can , rafinrifca 'Wtirk Of' the wing-forward, : of the two New Ireat Britain, as well m ffnn!>itt*tiorai in other parts ytiSSf hldproved the efficacy of rnlaised that although ttojwir wdwlitt nst 'say in so many erom must be tbfM, Ikgjbwfefcm that the ball .jMt ftil•' feet of the hKIKiMW no other iy**-:'' .iflW™ Her* WW* in to the Kj||j^jpP^ACTlCS.-' , IMISFOKDKJT.) Pakolam, writing t," comments on ave been so gen- ;• difficult to say iarnt much over tainly solved the • ihemselves to all to grounds which t from their own » what they have re been , accused lose, of stopping nding to ruin the as an entertainlay be considered i, but to the real iaptainey, and if ded in doing so firmly absorbed >ng trip is surely »ve followed the , but they were . t they also had ! ;alised their own sd" they worked j is very interestthe two outside ' who, by reason ) supporting the the front row on erably stiffening ring more weight moment he most this support is inly comes on to clined to put too rms of the hooker tending to force i two front row rgue that a heel, the solitary "1" ry, and also a Me. Perhaps this nst our methods. : forward play ikefield-Blakiston icrum to increase (nse of its shove, kly on to the op--quarters, to ruin has started, and st real combined hoped that the me in, but if it forming a more iving a smarter e made instantly >e interesting to justment of rule would allow the