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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 13

In a junior soccer match in England recently one of the teams was able to field only five players. As the referee considered that that number ag.ain.st a full team would make the game farcical he refused to allow the game to be started. The facts came to the notice of the Shellield and Ilallainshire F.A.. who asked the Referees’ Committee of the F.A. for a ruling on the matter, enquiring what is (inn least number of players with which a releree would be justified in starting a match. The Referees’ Committee were unwilling to express an opinion, but decided that a referee shoo'd postpone :i match when, in his opinion, the game would lose its proper character if contested by too small a number of players.

Stung by the long run of Cambridge wins in tlie boatrace —12 in a row —Oxford is calling on its crew to make the supreme sacrifice ami give up its tradi tional training beer. One would have thought that adoption of the Cambridge style would b.ave been a better bet, but the idea of taking up anything initiated by Cambrtdg.—witli the sole exception of “Oxford bags"—lms always been diotasleful to the Dark Bines. Two Australians. Lews and Wood, are in the Oxford boat, and Cree, of Geelong, has been given his blue for Cambridge.