FOOTBALL.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 71, 21 August 1878, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

Christchurch College v. Temuka

This match, played yesterday on the Pemuka Ground, was a decided success for the homo team. The visitors played most gamely, and held their own in scrimmages, lighter though they were, but the Temuka backs were too good for them. It might have been expected that the younger players would have shone in running, but they got never a chance, while Hamerton, Verity, and the elder Craig made splendid runs for Temuka. The youngsters played with a pluck and determination that increased from first to last, but the heavier metal of the home team told in the rushes. They were quite overmatched, but not thereby daunted. The game was opened by Temuka, Ta\ender kicking off from the lower end. After three or four scrimmages, and two fine runs by the elder Craig, Verity by a good run secured a touchdown for Temuka. Hamerton took a difficult try, but failed to score. A few more scrimmages, and then Hamerton obtained a b uch-down, Beeves taking, and missing the try. B.eveq by a good run, got a force down just as time was called. Fourteen tough scrimmages made this spell hard enough. Soon after the College opened the second spell Verity got a touch-down, but punted out. Then followed some gmd drop-kicking by the backs on both sides, the forwards thus getting a spell. Beeves made a good drop-kick try for a goal, missing it by very little. Hamerton in this spell made tne run of the match and Beeves, talcing the try, secured a goal for Temuka. The chief features of the third set-to were a score of hard scrimmages, mostly in favor of Temuka ; a run into touch in goal by Reeves, the try missed by Verity, the upsetting of the whole invading army in one of the scrimmages; and a false run into the goal posts by Clinch—false because G. Potts (!) had played “off-side/’ In the fourth twenty msnutes the visitors worked harder than ever, and both sides must have suffered more or less from the twenty hard scrimmages which, except for a touch-down and try by Hamerton, occupied the whole time. " The match thus ended in favor of Temuka by one goal and three touchdowns to nothing. Vigorous cheers for the College, responded to with cheers for Temuka, closed the days proceedings on the ground. There seemed to he only one opinion entertained ot the match — that the College boys played remarkably well, but were quite ovennat bed. Another opinion, on aside question, was that Temuka played men who ought not to have been in the game—non-members of the Temuka Club. The fact that the Temuka met by them was a very wide Temuka indeed, may somewhat soften to the minds of the College hoys the defeat they have suffered. This match was very well attended, the closing of the business houses in the town giving an opportunity to attend (o many persons who would otherwise have been unable to do so. .The visitors left for Timarn, where they play to-day, by the G o’clock train.