Football Fa rce
The AVellington Rugby Club’s senior team, relegated to the B grade at the end of last season, is creating something of a record this year. So far it has played six matches and has won them all, scoring 264 points for and only nine against, all penalties. It clinched its fame last Saturday Jby defeating Selwyn, once also an A* grade team, by 60 points to nil. The AVellington team is in the unique position, of being in the B grade, but including three All Blacks in F. D. Kilby. L. Johnson and I->. Oliver, while lately it has been supplemented by the addition of Riddell, a Manawhenua representative back, who learned bis football at St. Patrick’s College. Also included in the team is Russell Page, who was a reserve international back for Scotland a couple of years ago and who also played for the Army team. The Wellington Club team is of sufficient strength this year to win the A grade competition and it seems: a pity that it did not set its house in order last year to avert transference to the B grade.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1003, 20 June 1930, Page 9
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189Football Fa rce Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1003, 20 June 1930, Page 9
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