Our Rugbyites.
DEFEAT STILL UNKNOWN,
INTEREST GROWING IN THE TEST MATCHES.
London, Oct. 99,
The New Zealand footballers played a match at Leicester yesterday against a team representing the Midland Counties-. Another record attendance was attracted, about twenty thousand persons being present. The Leicester team was fully representative of the Midlands. Impressed apparently fay the visitors’ superiority over all teams they had met to date, the Midlanders copied a leaf out of the New Zealanders’ booh and played a Wing forward. Despite the change of tactics, however, they failed to hold their own, and were defeated by 21 points to 5. Tries were scored by Smith, Mynott, Stead, Harper, and Roberts, while Cunningham converted three of them. The match against England, fixed for December 2nd, has been transferred to Crystal Palace from Blackheath, owing to the enormous application for seats.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3592, 31 October 1905, Page 3
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140Our Rugbyites. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3592, 31 October 1905, Page 3
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