FOOTBALL.
TO THE EDITOR. . ' , .. Sin,--In answer to a letter signed ’‘Nightcap,” which appeared in one of your contemporaries of the 12th instant, I wish to state that the writer has made a grievous blunder in stating that the Stars voted against the Wellington Club " merely from custom." The Star Football Club was only formed a fortnight before the meeting of the three clubs held at the Tier Hotel, and consequently could not oppose the Wellington Club “ merely from custom." -Again, he states that the Melbourne rules are /’absurd."- How does he know this? He cannot have played, with .those rules, seeing that they have only been formed since last football season. . Wellington football players; by adopting the rides as used in Melbourne, will afford to ’the sight of spectators a game of science, and not of brutality, as it most certainly is when played with the, Eugby Union rules. Surely the author of the letter which appeared in the journal alluded to, must have written that absurd epistle with his nightcap on,—l am, &c., A Member of the Star Football Club.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4416, 15 May 1875, Page 3
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181FOOTBALL. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4416, 15 May 1875, Page 3
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