How football training may be useful in the more peaceful walks of life was illustrated on a provincial main highway (says the Napier. Telegraph). A horse bolted near Clive., just as a bus from Hastings was coming into Napier. The driver of the bus, seeing the. horse careering madly down the road, pulled up, and Mr A. E. Cooke, the vyell-known All Black, dismounted and at great risk of personal injury flung himself in approved Rugby fashion at the bridle and succeeded in stopping the runaway.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5076, 17 January 1927, Page 4
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