Bright Rugby Game Set Down For Levin

Chronicle (Levin), 8 September 1949, Page 7

Bright Rugby Game Set Down For Levin

College OM Boys play Napier High School Old Boys au the Levin Park Domain on Saturday as the main attraction. Those enthusiasts who are unable to travel to Foxton to see the HorowhenuaBush senior clash will thus have an opporcunity of seeing the winners of the local third grade championship in action against another fine team. College Old Boys have played weli throughout the season and have given excellent displays of the fast and open type of rugby which followers delight in seeing. The essence of their success has been physical fitness, combined with a good team spirit and the urge to play the game for the game's sa^e. For the second year in succession the Old Boys tegni has maintaine'd an unbeaten record, having won 14 games and drawn one (a six-all draw witli Foxton in their first meeting), and scoring 205 pcints to 18 against. Last season, with 14 wins and a draw, tnis team scored 285 points with 52 against. In a pre-season ' match at Napier, Olcl Boys defeated the Napier team in a hard-fought struggie by eight points to three. It is anticipated that an interesting encounter wiil resuit on Saturday. The curtain-raiser will be between the Horowhenua and Wehington primary school representatives. At the recent tournament in Wellington the local boys acquitted themselves so well that they were consfdered unlucky not to have won the honours. As these lads will eventually take their p.aee in club footbail, rugby fans will have an opportunity of summing up their potentia.ities for the future: