“FOR THE GAME’S SAKE”
RUGBY PRESIDENT'S RETORT [Pku United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, October 5. “ A gentleman from Queensland recently "said that he would make the Rugby Union change its name, but tkore is not- much sign of it yot, 5 suit! Air S. F. Wilson (president of the Canterbury Rugby Union) at a smoke concert on Saturday. “ And this will bo the case so long as you footballers continue to play the game for tiie game’s sake, and not tor wlmt you cun goi l out of it. It will be a bad day when players are paid—when players play a game lor what they can' got out of it. _lt is no longer a game, but a business, and you might as well call it that.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 10
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