COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 41, 17 August 1933, Page 13

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

ANNUAL TOURNAMENT

TEAMS ASSEMBLING

- The annual inter-collcgiato tournament, with Christ's College, Nelson College, tho * Wanganui Collegiate School, and Wellington College as the participants, will provide much activity at Wellington College on Saturday and Monday, and there will also be a big gathering of boys, past and present, to make the occasion one of the most memorable in the history of the tournament. The teams, with their supporters, will be assembling in Wellington this evening and tomorrow in preparation for the big event. Two matches arc to be played on Saturday and again on Monday, and there is every 'prospect of tho games being well up to the best standard of the past. In the event of a drawn game in tho first series the team placed highest in the tournament last year gives way to its opponents for the match winners v. winners in the second series, but with a draw in this final match i"the: teams \ are/; ? bracketed as winners of the tournament. Tho following are the teams: — Nelson College.—H. L. de C. Martelli; M. E. Cook, E; K. Kafstcn (captain), A. W. Grindle; B. G. B. Overton, B. L. Annand-Smith; D. E. Me Arthur; P. S. Rish worth, E. B. Boyd-Wilson, A. C. Wood, D. B. Fraser, E. H. M. Craighead, P. E. Eustace, B. de J, Clere, 0. C. Meikle; emergencies, E. P. ~R. Meredith, A. I. Knapp, K. A. Buddie, T. J. Langley, and M. A. G. Mason. Tho coach, Mr. H. V. Searle, recently appointed headmaster, is accompanying the team as manager. Christ's College.—B. E. Alexander; T. A. Harpur, 11. F. Flower, C. A. N. Broad; S. B. Thompson, C. K. B. Pearson; J. E. Crisp; A. E. W. Orinond (captain), H. B. Hay, j. E. S. Orbell, E. M.V. Bain, T. H. Fisher, J. N. Buchanau-Matson, F. W. Brandt, J. E. D. Eaton; emergencies, J. D. Maling, E. G. S. Ferguson, B. L. Taploy, and E. C. Saundcrs. Wangauui Collegiate School. —J. E. Price; A. B. Horrocks, M.: W. B. Knight, D. P. Beckett; W. L. Ellingham, A. F. Harding; H. D. Orton; D. J. Nilsson, J. M. Hare, M. J. Hewitt, G. N. Barron, G. B. Gibbons (captain), G. L. Mason, B. K. Kirkcaldie, P. M. Murphy; emergencies, D. E. Orton,/L. G. Stephenson, J. H. Jackson, and M. N. Hallwright. Wellington College.—P. M. Gray; E. K. A. McClune',. M. L. Binning, M. j Watt; D. L. Hurdley, M. H. Linklatcr;! K. Lees; E. W. Milne (captain), H. A. Reynolds, C. C. Gotlieb, T. H. Verry, V. J. Gotlieb, E. J. Comes, E. N. Akel, W. E. Crawloy; emergencies, A. M. Caughley, N. S. Burns, J. C. Dellow, J. F. Wyber, T. D. Childs, and K. J. Frazer. " . The Nelson College team is travelling to Wellington viaPicton, and is due here this evening. ' ■. j By way of a preliminary to the tournament an- inter-Island match has been arranged, and this will be played on Saturday, commencing at 11 a.m. The tcams^ will be' made up of old. boys who arc hopeful of raising a gallop on the footballSfield, though 'their day as regular players is regarded as done. Thirty-minute spells' have been set down as sufficient for them in "-this effort to come back. The old boys, however, are keen to throw all their j weight into the. contest, and in ono j ease at least it should be felt—the weight of one of the North Island forwards is set down at lGst. Wanganui Collegiate School and Wellington College Old Boys will make up tho North Island team, and old boys of Christ's College and Nelson. College will join forces as the South island combination. Mr. C. G. Porter, ex-All' Black captain and an old boy of Wellington College, will be the referee. The North Island team is as follows: —Pomaro, Young, Grenfell, Mackay, Mac Donald, dv Chateau, Wixon, W. Eenai, Bray, Hawker, ■ McColl, Emerson, Hum, T. Raine, B. Steele, and Hester (emergency). .. The first of the tournament games are to bo played on Saturday afternoon.