FOOTBALL.
Says the writer of Football Motes in the "'Ofcago Daily Times":—Was it not George Stephenson, the crack Otago representative, who first introduced the art of crops-punting to the public, 'who used to assemble on the Caledonian 'Ground in the dear dead days—when.football was football and nothing else mattered <much only the game?' Although the famous I Welsh quartette—Llewellyn, >Gabe, Morgan, Jowett—were credited with the innovation, it was really Stephenson who first showed ua how it was done, and to what fine purpose it could be.put in attack. Yet what happened when he first broke fresh ground with the cross-punt in Dunedin? lit was laughed at and.jeered off the field, not because it was not a strategic movement which was worth while, but because the players could rot adapt themselves to the innovation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9550, 24 July 1909, Page 6
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133FOOTBALL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9550, 24 July 1909, Page 6
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