ALL BLACKS IN FRANCE.
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VEXED QUESTION OF REFEREE. FRENCHMEN DECLINE TO^ACT. (Press Association.—Copyright-. (Received 11.40 a.m.) Paris, January 9. The question of a referee for Sunday's match, the All Blacks against a French fifteen, is still unsettled and an eleventh hour arrangment will be necessary. Three referees have been invited, but have declined. The matter has raised a controversy in the press. The "Auto" declares that the French players' methods are principally based on the necessity of winning the match, and French referees are inclined to follow the same methods, desiring to please rather than to educate the players A correspondent, in a letter to the "Auto," bitterly criticises the custom of employing • British referees in France as an insult to the French referees, and suggests the selection of a neutral, for instance, a Spaniard, Hungarian, or a Czech. N.Z. TEAM SELECTED. (Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received 12.35 p.m.) London, January 9. The All Blacks team to play France will be Nepia, Svenson, Lucas, Hart, Nicholls, Cooke, Dalley, Porter, Donald, Irvine, M. Brownlie, C. Brownlie, Harvey, White, Cupples.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2065, 10 January 1925, Page 5
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