SOCCER FOOTBALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 171, 21 July 1936, Page 16

SOCCER FOOTBALL.

SECONDARY SCHOOLS,

AUSTRALIAN PLAYERS' LECTURE

On Saturday morning Mr. J. A. Milburn, chairman of the Xew Zealand I' ootball Association, Mr. Leo Munro, chairman ot the Auckland Football Association, and Mr. W. I. Price, B.A>, a member of the Australian XI., visited the Domain during the course of the secondary schools' competitions. Mr. Price, addressing the boys, expressed his surprise and pleasure at the high standard of play shown by the boys. He considered that the local bojts compared favourably with those in his school in Sydney. He offered four rules of the game which he thought essential for every young player to follow:—To keep the ball low. to pass the ball to another player better situated than yourself at the earliest possible moment or. else put it into the net, to occupy the position which will be of most value to the team, having regard to the run of play, and to shoot hard immediately the opportunity offers. Mr. Price hoped that an interchange of visits of boys' teams might subsequently take place between Australia and NewZealand. The boys greatly appreciated the interest shown in them by the visitors.