FOOTBALL.
SOUTH AFRICA V. ENGLAND. A DRAwF GAME, [B»- FuCTBh TBTiROBAFH— COPYKIWTj [Pkr Prbbj Association 1 , London, Saturday. Thirty thousand people were present .at Crystal Palace to witness the match against England, which ended in a draw, both scoring a try apiece. The South Africans played without Stegmann, Mare, and Krige, owingto these players having met with accidents. [The South Africans' record of intei national matches is a peculiar one. They defeated the two strongest teams — Ireland and Wales — and could only draw with the weakestEngland — and were defeated by Scot- ( land. The New Zealanders made no race of it with England, and their score (15 to nil) was no guide to the actual strength of the teams.]
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Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 138, 10 December 1906, Page 2
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