Football
xToootball is noAv ' in.' In the United States the game of football is almost as dangerous to life and limb as the battles of the Anglo-Boer war. In these countries time and circumstance have greatly mitigated the erstwhile strenuous savagery of this old English game. ' What, 3 asks The Cajdain, ' would be thought to-day of a game of football in which 500 or 600 players were engaged on each side, and how would we like to be in the thick of it when teams of this number were rushing after the ball? When we remember also that few rules governed the play, and that, moreover, a proportion of the players were horsemen, the events that marked the progress of the game must have been of sufficiently stirring a character to satisfy the most greedy seeker after excitement.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 15 April 1909, Page 582
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138Football New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 15 April 1909, Page 582
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