Football. —The fine weather on Saturday wiis the menus of inducing a large number of members of the Christchureh Football Club to assemble on C'ranmer square, when the season was successfully opened by a scratch match, North v .South oi' Cashel street. The North mustered twenty players against twenty-eight of their opponents, all of whom seemed to enter into the game with considerable spirit, and a most enjoyable match finally terminated in favour of the Northerners by three touch-downs to one, no goal being obtained by cither side. The annual match with the College is fixed for Saturday next, which will be under the College rules, and on the College grounds; and it is very probable a second team of the Christchureh'Club will play a match with Lyttelton on the same day, on Oraumcr i^uare,
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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 876, 16 April 1877, Page 2
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