College Rugby

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 123, 15 August 1927, Page 6

College Rugby

Auckland Schools in Action

Play Not Up To Standard

THE prospect of an afternoon of good secondary school football attracted a large attendance at Eden Park o Saturday. Although the two principal fixtures were uti cloubtedly full of interest to supporters of various schools the football provided was not up to secondary school standard

supporters were present in full force, both stands and also the embankment being well occupied when the “curtain-raiser,** Sacred Heart College v. Mount Albert Grammar School commenced at two o’clock. School colours were well in evidence, good-natured partisanship also making itself felt in the school songs and hakas which were given with considerable zest at frequent intervals throughout the afternoon. In the first game Sacred Heart College disposed of Mount Albert Grammar more easily than the scox-e 6—4 indicates. The collegians, particularly in the closing stages, having decidedly the best of the game, and also being responsible for most of the open play- . , , . In the second game King s relied aimost solely on the extra weight of their forward division, a factor which eventually enabled them to run out winners by the narrow margin of three points

ing, it is contrary to the tradi»i„ secondary school football It u“ ' fession of back weakness, Ww k <:o '' persisted in. must eventually ' any improvement being effected Bush was the outstanding v, among the Grammar boys. At the time their other backs are not as bS 1 ’ they would apparently make out c° ! somehow gains the impression t r without their best man thev a better side. Whaley, Pott,™ 0 '* Campbell could have at ii m « v** worked to advantage. “ In the closing stages Grammar y , hard put to keep the Collegians I Rush after rush penetrated into Cn mar territory, and on several sions a score looked imminent " The bell sounded with Sacred He leading by two tries, scored Hassan and Hurd, to a splendid goal by Bush.