FOOTBALL RIOT
THE REFEREE CARRIED AWAY UXCOXSOIOUS. Angry spectators brake on to the ground at the end of a Rugby football match at Pontypool, Monmouthshire, in March last) and the refers® was seriously injured. Pontypool had Hot been boa ton at home this Reason and were plaving the Pill Harriers in tho \\Vl«h Cup "competition. Blows f?nd kicks vcfo freely exchanged during the first half and early m the second the referee ordered a Pontypool forward to leave the iiejd for fighting. Another Pontypool forward was then taken off with Ins ribs fractured and the Pill Harriers eventually won the came. The field was then invaded attd the referee. rendered unconscious by a blow ! on the faco from a spectator who escaped in tho crowd, lie was taken to the, dressing-room with difficulty and fighting was going on all o\w tho ground. The.police then intervonftd and tho place was clcarcd.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 5
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150FOOTBALL RIOT Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 5
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