MORALITY CAMPAIGN.
FOOTBALL SHORTS OFFEND. PARIS, April 16. Footballers playing in long trousers instead of shorts is the latest development in the morality campaign of the Bishop of Quimper. The priest at St. Gervais decreed that shorts were indecent as the players' thighs were visible. The teams donned - trousers and excluded women spectators. At the neighbouring Brittany village of Loperhet, Abbe Craignon instructed the women parishioners to punish their husbands aad sons for disobeying the bishop's orders, by allowing their dinners to get cold. The bishop's campaign began with dance halls. He declared that the modern dances were abominable, and bannsd them. He agreed to allow old-fashioned dances, but 4 these must be in the open air.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 93, 20 April 1932, Page 7
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