STUDENT ALL BLACKS

Evening Star, Issue 22445, 16 September 1936, Page 1

STUDENT ALL BLACKS

UNIVERSITY CLUB’S CONTRIBUTIONS CONGRATULATIONS FROM COUNCIL Congratulations to tho University Foqtball Club on tho selection of two of its members, J. M. Watt and C. C. Gillies, as All Blacks, were extended by the Otago University Council at its monthly meeting yesterday. Moving the resolution. Dr James Fitzgerald said he did not think it was beneath the dignity of an august body like the council to take cognisance of the fact that two members of the club had been chosen to represent New Zealand against Australia, and another of the club’s representatives had been chosen as an emergency. In a recent report the principal of Edinburgh University had made reference to the value of athletics and physical education generally. He had recently noticed in the cablegrams that the professor at the head of the Health Department in Edinburgh had stated that if he had charge of the physical care of the nation and its diet he would make it an A 1 nation in two years. “ Two generations, not two years,” corrected Dr F. S. Batchelor. “ There is a bit of a difference, you know.” (Laughter.) Dr Fitzgerald said they should recognise that physical education was part and parcel of the university system. Mr James Wallace seconded the motion. The Chancellor (Mr W. J. Morrell) said it was safe to say that every member of the council felt pleasure at the part that their University Club was taking in All Black football, and he referred to past players in Gilray,'Adams, Cabot, M‘Clymont, Fea, and Perry. Dr Fitzgerald said that he was not sure that these players had represented New Zealand against Australia, though they might have played against New South Wales or a New South Wales University team. A Member: They were All Blacks. The motion was carried.