ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1908, Page 3

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

TO THE EDITOB. V w J sn - to su PP°rfc the remarks of an Association Enthusiast" in your paper of the sth inst. rogarding the proposal to send an Association team Homo buch a proposal as this appears to nia quite absurd, seeing we are more babioa at the game, as it is played in New Zealand. I first heard of this proposal from a brother at Home, who said he had seen it Jn tho Athletic News, but the suggestion appeared so ridiculous, that 1 thought he must have been mistaken and from that day. until seeing this iri your paper- I quits thought it mast havo been a mistake, and didn't trouble- to refer to it in writing Home. If wo had men to select from who could hold a candle to some of the best amateurs at Home, I would be one of the first to hehj push such an idea on. But the fact that a team from the English cricketers could turn out in football attire and defeat a pioked team of Wellington by S clear goals .should bo' enough to satisfy one 1 and 'ail as to ■ ; what the • probable results would- bo should a Now Zealand Association team plajr a first-class 'Homo team either amateur or professional; The combination alone, in my idea, in the best Homo team would be good enough to carry the leather the whole length o f th© field, without our men touching! it. Any Home player will agree, I am buco —I am, etc., . >lU , ' Wellißgton, 6th JEfltasaH^ 19<gj" '