Rugby Penalty
Sir,—For inconsistency the present Rugby Union executive certainly takes the cake. An Old Boys player receives injuries which put him out for the season, through an indiscriminate kick, and 1 the offender was not even warned, or was he? Weeks later, two players exchanging a blow or two with their fists —no harm done to either—are sent off the field and stood down by this august body for two weeks without prior warning from the referee —what justice—what noble administrators! —Yours, etc.. WHAT CLUB. • June 4, 1958. ["This letter hardly warrants a comment,” said Mr R. W. Blazey, president of the Canterbury Union. “The correspondent must know that in the first case no official complaint was made to the union by the referee and no player was ordered off. In the second case the referee took definite action in ordering off two players and the union had to
deal with them.”]
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28606, 7 June 1958, Page 3
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