RUGBY FOOTBALL TEAM
TO TOUR JAPAN. SYDNEY, April 5. Mr T. Inglis Moore, secretary of the University Sports Union, stated last night that the University Football Club had decided to accept the invitation of the Japan Rugby Football Union for a tour of Japan early in 1934. It had been decided to send a combined Australian universities’ team. About 25 players would leave Sydney on the proposed tour at the end of December. The team would be away three months and would spend one month in Japan. Seven matches would be played, at Tokio and Osaka, beginning January 25 and closing February 18. The New South Wales Rugby Union intended to back the tour to the extent of £4OO. The players would have to pay their expenses to and from Japan, but while there the Japanese hajj jgreed to provide all expense. The team would receive 75 per cent, of the net profits of the tour.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 April 1933, Page 12
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