FOOTBALL.
BY GOAL-SNEAE. And some, with many a merry shout, ’.Mid riot, rivalry, and rout, Pursue the football play—Scon.
I notice that the Reform and the Te Aro Foot hall Clubs meet this afternoon on the Basin Reserve. Allow me in a word to express the hope that we shall this season see leas playing for the crowd and more for the honor and glory of the olnb than baa been usual in the last two or three matches, less holding the ball, and fewer of the other elements which brought about or constituted an amount of unnecessary roughness in the play. Let every one play a friendly, courteous, and manly game, “ give and take,” and never do in haste what be may repent at leisure. Let each one feel his own responsibility in maintaining and promoting the real well-being of the Victorian game, that it may become a theme for admiration and approval, and not for reproach and admonition.
Then strip, lads, and in to it, shoulder to shoulder. Play strongly, and fairly, and if you should fall, Bemember reverses make brave men the bolder. And life has worse downcomos than those at football.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5657, 17 May 1879, Page 3
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195FOOTBALL. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5657, 17 May 1879, Page 3
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