ALBION FOOTBALL CLUB.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3759, 7 March 1907, Page 2

ALBION FOOTBALL CLUB.

The annual general meeting of the above club was held in Mr Perreau’s rooms on Tuesday evening, Mr F, Whibley in the chair.

The annual balance-sheet showing a small loss on the year’s work, was adopted as read. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:— Patron: F. W. Frankland, Esq., (re-elected); President: Mr O. Robinson ; Vice-Presidents: Messrs S. Hickson, E. A. Coley, C. T. Easton, H. Diraant, M. H. Walker, M. Perreau, J*. W.. Rough, E. W. Wilson, and A. E. Shadbolt ; Secretary and Treasurer : Mr A. Irarie (re-elected) ; Delegates to the Union: Messrs F. Robinson, A. Shadbolt and J. Frew.

The election of Captain, Vicecaptain and Committee was left over until next meeting.

It was decided to nominate both a senior and junior team for the competition this year.

Votes of thanks to the chair and to Mr Perreau for the use of the room concluded the meeting.

When the American footballers appear in the colony visitors to' Alexandra Park may hear some of ; the “ yells ” peculiar to the American colleges. Whether the Americans have a yell of their own, or will make one lor the occasion, is not known yet. The Englishmen, whose exclamations are quiet, halfthrottled,. gentlemanly, were appalled at the vigour which the’ All Blacks put into their war-cry when they swept all before them, but ';.

there is more sense in the New Zealand slogan than such yells. as these. Harvard, when victorious at football, shouts “ Rah, rah, rah, Harvard. ’ ’ Pennsylvania, again, cries, “ Hoo-rah, hoo-rah, hoo-rah, hoo-rah, Penn—syl—va—ni—A,” while the Chicago University boys yell, “ Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Chica—go, Go it, Chica—go—it, Chica—go—it, Chica—go it, go it.” After all, “Ka mate, ka mate, ka ora, kaora,” bur New Zealand yell, takes a lot of beating.