RUGBY FOOTBALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 37, 13 February 1926, Page 25

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

The fact that the youth is practically born to the game keeps South Africa among the forefront in international Rugby football (says a South African writer). On the other hand, soccer cannot get a grip because in many, in fact, 90 per cent, of the schools the srame is not encouraged. A boy who plays soccer in preference to Rugby is not exactly popular. Furthermore, the sportsmasters in this country are against their boys playing the dribbling code. There are. for instance, some young men who could get their places in our first team League soccer sides but it is held here that when a boy is at school he should be loyal to that school, which, of course, means that he should keep to Rugby. To be candid, any college boy who desires to play for an outside club on hia Saturday afternoon holiday would become very unpopular with his scliooiuii'fl-. ! it>ni n we, tind that soccer is making little or no headway. In Natal, which is more English than any other province, Rugby is having to give way to soccer, but such a turnover is never, likely to -happen, in -the other centres.