FOOTBALL.
As we may expect the season soon tho following Yankee description of tho players will bo found soothing to parents and guard - ians Even a blind man can tell a footballer at first sight. He never wears raoro than one ear, and about the same number of eyes. His nose looks like a piece pf liver stretched across a thimble; one arm. is bent backwards j he appears to have two left legs, and he carries about as muck scalp to the square inch; as a catfish. The principal, part of thegame seems to be for one player to run till 60 falls,, If lie falls on a broken bottle so much, tho' better, be gets'moro honour and nearly all the
bottle. Thirty-seven players then fall on top of him, punch his ribs, claw off his Dare, gouge out his eyes, and kick plugs off his cheeks its big as Hobiirt potatoes. 'l'hon kliey lift liiin up, stick lum together wi'Ji giant cement, and curt him to tlio nearest qualified circular sawyer. Taking it altogether it is an extremely healtby game—for the spectator behind the fence. It is mostly playod by married men who are tired ot their existence."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4028, 5 February 1892, Page 2
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200FOOTBALL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4028, 5 February 1892, Page 2
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