N.Z. RUGBY
STANDARD OF PLAY
CRITICISA/I DEPLORED
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
PALMERSTON N., This Day.
Advocates of rougher and tougher play in New Zealand football came in for criticism at the annual meeting of theManawatu Kugby Union. "It seems tha); some people are prone to attach too much to our defeat by the Springboks and allow themselves to be stampeded," said the president, Mr. A. M. Ongley. "People should give the matter more thought before making such statements." .
Mr. Ongley did not think there was any danger of the controlling authorities being stampeded. The critics had been quite satisfied after the interisland matches that footbal in New Zealand was at its peak and also after the first Test in Wellington. It was only after those two games and the defeat of the All Blacks that complaints were heard with the suggestion that the game -should be made rougher. If. ay blame was necessary it should be directed against the system of play and not against, the players. He did not see that the1 defeat of New Zealand mattered very much. The objective of the controlling authorities was to provide good, healthy, energetic exercise'for those who wanted it. If New Zealand had to make its football rougher and tougher to beat South Africa it would be a hollow victory.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1938, Page 18
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