When a player of the opposing team complained that he had been bitten in the arm while in the scrum during a recent junior football match, the coach of one New Plymouth team decided to investigate. He taxed one of the forwards with the offence, and the player concerned looked sheepish for a while and then explained that “his teeth had just been done up and he wanted to try them out.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1938, Page 7
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