Football

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 8, 30 June 1885, Page 2

Football

MAETON V. FEUDING.

The match between the above dubs was played last Saturday afternoon on the Feilding ground, and resulted in a victory for the local team by 41 points to nil. The visitors, who were a smartlooking lot of young fellows, were a great deal lighter than" : 'their : opponents, and stood no- show whatever in the scrimmages. They were also very slow at picking up the ball,. and only two or three runs were made by their backs during the whole. game, but although over-ipfttched r every ; point, they fought pluckily totneend." Ifls only fair to them to say that this was their first match. - ■ With: pradicerand a dry ground, they would WaJ^ird team to beat. -With sucha^gb^iim they should jlearn, jfoeVpaasmg ß&js* and avoid scrimmaging as much m possible. . To do this th^man^nning with the ball should not wait till he is collared, but should pass, while, he is free. IJnselnsh : play and' quigV following up are essential, -and can never hope.tp excel unless^th^s© tw» points axe attended to, x %TJ»e.^eilding forwards worked weltj^gejther, and made several good dnbDUngJ fj&sfißS, jbut they are. a -great *$tijl(feft . jbital ;of kicking hard 'when'- close [fo- their opponents, goal line> ,^^y sHditla the ball come back to the quarters, who could either atie^i'lto^xM'iif or pass to the hatt-backs. Again; "when the ball is thrown infrem toucßwit&in their opponent'siiwenty-fiye, instead of dropping the ball and striving to force it over the line, they shouljlpass it back immediately, and if possible well into the centre of the ground,^ so, that thy backs might have a chance "of potting a goal. Messrs Sherwill and McDonald umpired for Feilding ag^Marton respectively, and: gave' eyeiy satisfao* tion. The following L matched ' have been fixed :r-^Fejlding v Foxtoh, at FoxtonbnJuly W; Feilclinfc v Palmerston at on 1 Jtfly 14fcL