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N.Z. Soccer Team Defeated 12—1
iBy Telegraph— I
WELLINGTON, Last Night. Before a crow-d of only 5000 at Athletic Park, Wellington, on Saturday afternoon the English amateur Soccer team scored a convincing win over New Zealand in the third Test by 12 goals to one.- Rain squalls and a biting southerly made couditiona unpleasant and the ground was greasy after the heavy rain. The English team were never in danger of defeat, The first score came four minutes from the start and thereafter the visitors invaded the New Zealand goal mouth, scoring eight goals before the ehange over. . Cameron had a hectic time in goal but though the score continued to mount he stopped many more sihots tian he let through, The New Zealand backs Cawthery and Stone were nonplussed by the clever manoeuvres of the Englishmen who were constantlv changing positions during attack. Tlu tourists again exploited the third bacJ; game with marked success, Joy, the tall centre half, proving capable of break 1 iug up single-haiided the majority o the New Zealand attacks, >
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 138, 28 June 1937, Page 7
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