FOOTBALL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2161, 17 August 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOOTBALL.

A record in the way of potting goals was established. at Wanganui recently in a match between the Wanganui Club and Kaieru. One of tho Kaieru meat, when in his own twenty-five, drop-kicked the ball, kir tending to find the line, but the lea 7 tber sailed over the bar behind him-. Tli a referee ruled a goal for Wanganui, and this was the only “score’,’ during the game. American papers, are, if anything, original in some matters. The, following . from a ’Frisco paper will take some beating:——The invincible Rugby football team of Queensland (Australia) wiU make a trip to 1 California -to engage in contests with. L the best teams on the coast. William Uni mack, the American representative of the Queensland team, has heard from E.- :J. Beard, of Australia, a member of the executive committee of the great football aggregation.' Unmack sayj it is ’certain that a team will come to tlie coast in- September. The purpose is to further the interest in Rugby football and make it a grr't international sport. Queensland has a wonderful aggregation of players ! They have great pace aiid cleverness, and are in a class by themselves’! One of tlieir greatest victories was when they defeated the crack AllBritish team, made up of the best players in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. They won by a score of 11 to 3. [The Britishers defeated Queensland in the two games played by 21 points to 5 and 18 points to 7.) From the advice that Unmack' haa had from Beard, the team wall'start for tliis country about September 1,