ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CAN WESTLAND TEAM MAINTAIN UNBEATEN RECORD TOMORROW?

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1949, Page 3 (Supplement)

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CAN WESTLAND TEAM MAINTAIN UNBEATEN RECORD TOMORROW?

Soccer fans will be at Victoria Park tomorrow, when the final of the Dawson Cup, which also carries the championship of the Minor Associations, will be played. The Southland team is the challenger. Westland has not been beaten for three seasons and it will be interesting to see if it can maintain that‘record. Southland is reported to be confident that it will take the Dawson Cup back to Invercargill. Last season’s game at Invercargill, where Westland won the trophy, was [fast and exciting throughout and it Lwas only in the later stages of the game that Westland’s coolness and determination decided the issue. For the schoolboys’ curtain-raiser, all the players who took part in the recent South Island tournament are availfable. The results of the games played at Timaru- point to great improvement in the standard of football, displayed. At last season’s tournament, Coast was beaten by Buller 6-niL Last week ‘Buller was fortunate to make a goalless draw of it. Canterbury, the ultimate tournament winners, just managed to beat the Coast team. The following schoolboy teams have been chosen for tomorrow’s curtainraiser: — A', team.—Dester, Boote, Shadbolt, Meikljohn. Ashby, Henderson, Harvey, Dunn, Coll, Ogilive, scott. B team.—Watson, Boot, Dayne, Wotton, Walton, Murdoch, Richmond, Inglis, Pollock, Naughton, Thomson. Reserves. — . Richmond, Thomson; Marley, -Soster.