RUGBY ON THE PACIFIC COAST

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1924, Page 6

RUGBY ON THE PACIFIC COAST

A REVJV^L

(TEAM : LIKELY .TO .VISIT AUSTRALASIA. " XBJ TELEGRAPH.—-SPECIAL TO JHE.-POST.) ' AUCKLAND, This Day. 'The ihqpe.of a revival of .the-British |Rugby..co.de, on.the Pacific Coast, .particularly at Stanford, was .expressed yesiterday by Mr. .Harry B. Maloney, Asjsoqiate -Director of 'Physical Education . ,at Stanford, who is a passenger, on the ;Makura as manager of :.the Stanford (tennis team, which h)fc -just concluded fl successful tour of Australia, aiid is .now on its w;ay to -the United States. ;Mr. s\laloney ,is a -keen ;Rugby .enthusiast, and-left no doubt of his feelings ,when'he said ''Hugby is the game, .and : American football is now played as a .business." Mr. Maloney said that as. a result of ,the_ games played by the All Blacks in Californa, students" of the universities jhad ;be_en ;left .with' the .inipressfpn t t!iut jfrom the standpoint of .amateur sport .the only thing worth while was to play .the game. That impression" had been ; handed down as a -tradition from .one .generation- of students to .another, and lad done much to raise tlie standard of. lUniversity 'athletic activities. '' • This .spirit, had'been, greatly assisted .by visits |of two -Australian .teams—the Wallabies ,and the-Waratahs. " ' ' The , pqssibility of a Stanford team ivisiting these countries in the near ifuture.was mentioned by Mr. Malouey, iwho said he was expecting an invitation .to he sent.in.to Stanford by .South "Wales Union -asking .tliat a, team' .be-seut south next season or the following y.ear. He mentioned that ■ Stanford ihftd ..eleven iuen in the American Hugby ,teani which took part iii tlie Olj-mpic |Games, .and,they'!had a .sufficient nucleus to make possible that •.continuation of .the game" in the universityi ' He hoped . would be sufficient stimulus and .backing to .make it woith" while for ■young men to .take up tlie game, and jthe .proposed trip to Australia and New [Zealand should help in this .direction. ;lhe young men were keen. enough on (the ;game, but it .\yas necessai-y to capture- the .interest of ,the graduates