RUGBY FOOTBALL
COLLEGES MEET. A DRAWN GAME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. After a scoreless first half, the first fifteens of Wairarapa College and Rongotai College drew, 3-all, in their annual match, played yesterday at Kilbirnie. The game was evenly contested, the slight superiority of the Wairarapa forwards being offset by the better play of the Rongotai backs. As the result of the wind changing. Wairarapa had the wind with them throughout both spells. For Rongotai. Colquhoun scored from an opening by Moody, who beat several players. For Wairarapa, Taylor kicked a good goal after a scrum infringement. Mr J. A. Wilson refereed.
The visitors, in charge of Mr J. E. Tier, a former master of Rongotai College, were entertained to tea in the Rongotai College assembly- hall by the women’s auxiliary.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1940, Page 3
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