FOOTBALL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 9

FOOTBALL.

/ 1 '-1-' THE ENGLISHMEN'S; TOUR: ijv'-'ttr ASSOCIATION.) Dunsdin, March 4./ ; A't/'.a-me.eting ;of tho /Committeo 'of the Otago Rugby Union -to-day. a resolution was ■ passed'' affirming tho. opinioii"'that it;. ,was 'highlyr desirable -"that three. Test matches : ■/should bd /played between', the English team and-New. Zealand, and urging,that the New: Zealand Union should so arrangO ;the . Englishmen's'programmo as to. provide for' threo Test matchesI.';1.'; Tho Committee' 'expressed the -preparedness of /th'o Otago; Union to /forego, the South'lsland match at Dunedin, if necessary, to facilitate -theplaying- of 'three Tests. : y.m.c.a; club: ; . " Tho report in connection with the 15.M.C. A. Football Club for the year 1907, (which will 'be presented at tho' forthcoming annual meeting) states, inter alia, that the past season waS tho. most successful experienced since the inception of the Club; Altogether,- •;-one: senior, one;.junior, one'-third, and onev' fifth-class team took : part. in tho competitions—a record for any Association football club in' Wellington;' Tho senior team, ■which caine third in ._ its grade, played'l2 games; winning 5,' and' drawing; 2, ■ the aggregate; scores- for' 1 ' aiid'agairist being .14- goals"and'-lV'"goals respectively.' 'junior* team 1 gained third , place in its'grade,' playing 12 games, 'of - which 6 /were, won,', 2 ■lost/ and 4 : drawn, the aggregate scores being ■a,s follow:'For,'32 goals,;-against, 13 "goals. Of 14 contests entered ,'int'o 'by -the fifth-class 3 were won)-8 lost, arid' 1 drawn,' the record showing'2o;goals secured -by tlie t'earii arid; 21/ agairist/ ; it.' "The' fourth "A" team "won 5 'lost' 7; and drew 4,.'compiling in all '39 goals-'as. against a total of 27 goals/ihado by their'opponents. . Tho .fourth "B" team lost' all of tho- 9 matches which ' it played.' Of 14; contets.': entered-; into by' the fifth-class, t'eani, '12 wero-'won'and- 2 'were'drawn; tho score-sheet-reading-.For, 29 goals; against, 0n1y, ! 2 goals.' ' ;The thanks of the Club aro tendered to Mr.': J.- Adair," who coached the" fourth "and-.fifth-classtcams; Mr. Cecil Jones, who "acted as '• secretary "of the 'Association during Mr. . HolmeS's • visit,': t-6 America; and the' office-bearers,; including : the-' members of tlw commiiteo. j,':;-.-"--, \r;.