Rugby PLAYING THE SIDELINE
Causing Loss In Gates
(N.Z. Press Association)
OAMARU, June 1 Criticism of the opinion that Rugby should be played near the sideline was expressed by a life member of the Excelsior Football Club. Mr A. Millican, of Christchurch, at the club's seventy-fifth anniversary celebrations at Oamaru.
Mr Milligan contended that the Canterbury Rugby Union had lost £l2OO last year because the game had not been worth watching.
He referred to the Ranfurly shield match between Canterbury and Wellington when there were I*9 line-outs. The recent first test at Auckland between England and the All Blacks, in which there were 93 line-outs, and the WellingtonEngland game, with 97 "This has got to stop." said Mr Milligan. He recalled that In 1925 there were between 15.000 and 16 000 spectators at matches In Christchurch. Today, he claimed, there were 3000 to 4000
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30147, 3 June 1963, Page 13
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