ASSOCIATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 5

ASSOCIATION

GAME IN COLLEGE

HEADMASTER THANKED

NEW PLYMOUTH MOVE

Fifty-one boys are participating in [Association football at the New Plymouth Boys' High School, where practices are conducted by a capable coach.

"We feel that this is a good proportion for a start out of a school of approximately 600 pupils," said the Taranaki Football Association in a letter received at a meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Football Association last night.

"Absolutely no obstacle was placed in our way and if all other schools would accept the game as readily as this one has done there would be a very bright future for football," said the Taranaki Association.

"This may be the forerunner of establishing the game in all the secondary schools of Taranaki," remarked the chairman of the council (Mr. J. A. Milburn).

It was decided to write to Mr. Moyes, principal of the New Plymouth school, thanking him for his sportsmanlike spirit.

COLLEGE TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA?

The proposal to send a secondary school boys' Association team to Australia this year was advanced last night when the Council of the New Zealand Football Association decided to communicate immediately with Australia suggesting a visit from New Zealand and to spend up to £150 on sending a team of college boys.

The decision followed the receipt of a letter from the junior management committee of the Wellington Football Association strongly advocating a visit by secondary school boys to Australia this year in return for a visit received ten years ago. The team would go in the coming term holidays, it was suggested.

FOR CENTENARY YEAR

OVERSEAS VISITS PROPOSED

The possibility of securing visits from overseas Association football teams in 1939 or 1940 or in both years is' to be investigated by the council of the New Zealand Football Association, which last night decided that its chairman (Mr. J. A. Milburn) should interview the Soccer-playing members of the Indian hockey team at present in New Zealand as to the prospects of a visit from an Indian Football Association team.

The New Zealand Football Association recognises the importance of marking 1940, the Centenary year, by some special events in the game. It has also decided to take shares in the Exhibition Company, the number to be the subject of a report by the finance committee.

REPLACEMENT RULE

A decision that once a Soccer player has left the field of play with an injury and has been replaced by another he cannot take further part in the game was made by the council of the New Zealand Football Association last night, in reply to a query from the Auckland Football Association.

Auckland wrote that in a recent match an injured player left the field and was replaced. Later another player was injured and he was replaced by the player who was first injured. By five votes to four the council decided that such a practice was undesirable.

F.A. TROPHY CHALLENGE DATE

July 16 has been suggested by the Canterbury Football Association as a suitable date for the match for the F.A. Trophy between Canterbury, the holders, and Wellington, the challengers.

The game, which is to be played at Christchurch, was originally proposed by Wellington for July 9, but Canterbury has replied that that is a race day.

The suggestion of July 16 is to be referred by the council of the New Zealand Football Association to the Wellington Association.

Otago has challenged for the F.A. Trophy and will play the winners of the Canterbury-Wellington game.