LAST WAR TOOK BIG TOLL OF FOOTBALL INTERNATIONALS
Recent mention of casualties among leading Dominion footballers recalls some of the severe losses suffered by the Rugby game in the last war.
New Zealand teams, of course, suffered heavily, but the saddest case was that of the Scottish team of 1913, eight of which fell in the Great War. The men who perished were:—W. M. Wallace, full-back; J. B. Sweet and W. R. Sutherland, three-quarters; E. Milroy, stand-off half; and F. H. Turner, I. Robertson, P. C. B. Blair and D. M. Bain, forwards.
There were, of course, many other Scottish internationals who lost their lives, including D. R. Bedel-Sivright, captain of the British team that toured New Zealand in 1904. Of the 30 players in the English-Scottish match of 1913, 13 fell in the war, including R. W. Poulton, the great English centre whose death on the battlefield evoked a touching poem.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 205, 30 August 1941, Page 6 (Supplement)
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