PUBLIC SCHOOLS RUGBY UNION.
Sir,—ln your Ksuc of April 21 their appeared a letter regarding the Public Schools Rugby Union refusing to admit' the Marist Bros.' schoolboys to play football. '.Now, sir, J. think that .Air. U, Howie is quite right in saying that an ■ injustice is being . done, to these boys. Here is a union formed with the express purpose of. fostering Rugby in schools, and aro setting themselves out to do quite Hie opposite. Why, I ask, should this b; sol' • Arc not the Marist Bros.' boys entitled to the same consideration as* the State schoolboys? I, for one, think they are. Why discriminate? Tho excuses made by this learned body are without any sense of fair play, and' should not, and 1 hope will not, be swallowed by any lover of British justice. I - think that these boys are just as much) entitled lo play Rugby (their national! game) as are other schoolboys throughout. ■ the Dominion. In conclusion, sir. I only hope that some abler pen than mine will i lake this matter up, and not let these I boys bo lost to the good old gamo of. .Rugby. Trusting I am not encroaching too much on the spaco of your paper.— I am, etc., MARIST OLD BOY.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 3
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211PUBLIC SCHOOLS RUGBY UNION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 3
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