Children At Rugby
Sir,—People in No. 4 stand yesterday will specially endorse your Rugby writer in the need to control children at Lancaster Park. Occupants of this stand are the special victims of a practice of releasing children from their own enclosure to take seats in front of No. 4 stand after the game has started. It occurred last year during the Springboks’ mid-week match and again yesterday. The children make nonsense of any idea that primary schoolboys can tolerate 80 minutes of international Rugby. After a storming arrival and scuffle for seats, interest in Rugby lasts for possibly five minutes, than cap-snatching leads to chases, fights, and scuffles lasting until the ritual undisciplined charge at the end. If the Rugby union harbours notions that it owes something to “players of the future,” as the cliche goes, it has specific obligations to persons who pay 25s to watch Rugby, not schoolboy antics. —Yours, etc., NEVER NO. 4 AGAIN. June 23, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 12
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161Children At Rugby Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 12
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