TO-MORROW'S FOOTBALL

Evening Star, Issue 19663, 16 September 1927, Page 6

TO-MORROW'S FOOTBALL

SOCCER CANTERBURY v. OTAGO. A- good game of Association football should bo witnessed at Carisbrook, where tljp Canterbury and Otago representatives will meet in the final match for the F.A. trophy competition. Last year, when these team met in the round of matches at Christchurch, the Otago side proved victorious, but on this occasion they will have a much more difficult task, as Canterbury is a very strong combination, and after its draw with Auckland last week the Canterbury players are expected to make a. bold bid for supremacy. To win the trophy this year the northern representatives will have to defeat the local side by three clear goals. A curtain-raiser will be played between Northern and Maori Hill second division teams for the final of this grade. RUGBY LEAGUE AUCKLAND v. OTAGO. The Rugby League tit-bit of the sea» son will bo staged at the Caledonian Ground, where the Otago representatives will lino up against the stillest proposition they arc likely to encounter for many a day. Auckland, their opponents, are regarded as one of the best provincial teams ever fielded in New Zealand, and contains three of the League All Blacks who toured England last year. Numbered among the Aucklanders are some players who are noted for that tricky brilliance which never fails to give delight to football spectators. It is rather too much to expect that Otago will beat The visitors, but wbeu it is remembered that the local team includes M'Kewon, Oliver, Don Sullivan. Townsend, and Thomas, players worthy of a place in any provincial team, it can be surmised that the northerners will not have things all their own way. In any case, the match will provide many thrills. The teams arc as follow: Auckland'Full-back. Dufty; three-quarters—G. Wade,, C. Gregory, .and.M. Little; five-eighths, M. Wcthcrall and 8. Webb; half, A. M'lutyre; forwards—J. O’Brien, W. Somers, L. Hunt, IT. Dixon, H. Payne, and A. Clark; reserve backs—J. Wilson, C. List, and S. Prentice; forwards—E. Hall, and F. Bass.

Otago. Full-back—D. Sullivan; three-quarters—ll. Oliver, B. Eckboff, W. Clydesdale; five-eighths—J. Webber and K. MTvewen ; half-back, _ B. Jacob; forwards —Townsend, M. Quinn, T. Hunt Tom o,’Connor. J. O’Connor, Harry Thomas (captain) ; reserve backs, A. Denniston and W. Yorrath; forwards, Ted O'Connor and 1). Engstroni.

The niaiib will bo for the Northern Union Cup, which the Aucklanders have sportingly brought on tour with them. The cup was presented by the Northern Rugby Football Union to the Now Zealand" League for annual coinpetition among provincial teams of this country, and has been held by Auckland sinco 1911.