Rugby Football
Sir, —With reference to yesterday’s leading article "A Disgrace To Rugby,” I venture to say you have very little real insight into the game of Rugby football as played by Kiwis from schoolboy to man and the meaning and purpose underlying the game in developing manhood. Kiwis are fundamentally a rugged people who can give and take hard knocks without “whining” or malice. New Zealand Rugby does not breed the teddy-boy, or the “pretty-pretty,” “fancy-fancy” type with tissue-paper mentalities. Nor did the “fancy-pants” type of Rugby you appear to unspeciflcally desire make Kiwis the best fighting soldiers in World War 11. There is more behind our game of Rugby than you and a lot of critics apparently see. After all if there are people who still wish to play marbles, well 0.K., but let us stick to a man’s version of Rugby in New Zealand and not a mid-Victorian conception of it.—Yours, etc., KIWI. September 12, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28999, 14 September 1959, Page 3
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