School Rugby
Sir, —I was shocked to discover that viciousness and brutality have crept into schoolboy Rugby as well as club games. The fact that a “bit of knuckle” in scrums and rucks has always been accepted is bad enough, but it was appalling to see apparently deliberate foul play in the School-College game today. One boy should certainly have been sent off. Boys obviously think it clever to follow the lead of some club players, and I heartily endorse Mr Brittenden’s demand for sterner action by referees and by the Rugby Union. As a first-aider, I see some of the results of the typical New Zealand “forward struggle,” so often another name for a maul, and the injuries do not say much for Rugby in this country.—Yours, etc., AN OLD BOY. July 13, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31111, 14 July 1966, Page 14
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135School Rugby Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31111, 14 July 1966, Page 14
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