COLLEGE RUGBY
TOMORROW'S MATCH
Set down for last Wednesday, the annual Rugby football match between the first fifteens of Wellington College and St. Patrick's College (Silverstream) is now scheduled to take place tomorrow afternoon at. Athletic Park. Silverstream and Wellington have fine records in ' secondary school arid inter-collegiate Rugby, Wellington, of course, having by far the most imposing list by reason of its many years of, association with the national game. Still, in its short history the Silverstream College has put up an outstanding -record. Jin yiew of Silverstream's strength^ the WellingtonSilverstream .match lias been looked upon each year as the leading "local inter-collegiate fixture, and there is no i exception to the rule this year. The teams-should give a 1 display tomorrow Ito arouse much interest and enthusiasm. Wellington College recently defeated' ' St. Patrick's College city fifteen, but if is.'expected' that the Silverstream fifteen' will present a more difficult problem for Wellington. Whatever the result, the football' should bo right up to collegiate standard.
Second fifteens from the colleges will meet in a curtain-raiser to the match between the first fifteens.
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Evening Post, Issue 30, 4 August 1936, Page 11
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182COLLEGE RUGBY Evening Post, Issue 30, 4 August 1936, Page 11
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