COLLEGE BAN

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 9

COLLEGE BAN

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL

INTIMIDATION SUGGESTED

Steps taken in recent years with a view to the. introduction of Association football into the secondary schools in Wellington and the ' position as at present, -with particular reference to the attitude adopted lay the principal of Wellington College, were outlined at the annual meeting last evening.of the Wellington Football Association. The president, Mr. J. J. Roberts, said they had had great difficulty in getting the game taken up to any extent at all by th« colleges. So far their only real success had been -with the- Technical College. For some time they had .concentrated their efforts on Wellington College, .without success. That was to bo regretted. There were many, boy.s who started by playing Association football ami! who were very -successful," yet when they went to college they were allowed to play Kugby only. Rugby was a jolly good game, but there was the question- of the boy who was not capable of playing, a good ganio of Rugby, though ho would be, or was, a good Association -footballer. The chairman of tho management committee, Mr. W. B. Hicks, said that Mr. W. A. Armour, principal of Wellington College, and Mr. F. M. Eenner, principal of Kongotai College, had been interviewed. Mr. Armour had been seen a nu'mbor of times, on the last of which he had' stated definitely that he would not stand for Association football in the college. The college board of governors had been approached. The delegates were received sympathetically, but were given to understand that the board must support the headmaster. "We will be pleased to get suggestions on what to do next," said' Mr. Hicks. ■He added that there were many boys at. Wellington Collego who were not playing any winter sport, and .suggested that the boys were more or less intimidated from playing Association football. There were many ways of intimidating a schoolboy; ridicule vras .one of the most effective.