English Amateur Soccer Team Arrives

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 122, 25 May 1937, Page 7

English Amateur Soccer Team Arrives

ARRIVE IN NAPIER TO-MORROW Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Thoroughly fit after a pleasant voyage the English amateur Soccer team wihich will undertake a short tour of the Dominion during the next five weeks arrived at Aucklaud to-night by the Tamaroa. The team, which comprises 18 players, is looking forward to an enjoyable visit and is confident that it will show the New Zealand crowds good football. The joint managers of the team are Messrs. Wreford Brown and Thorne, while Mr. Stollery is coach. Mrs. Wreford Brown is also accompanying the party. The team was welcomed by Mr. F. H. Campbell, vice-chairman of the New Zealand Soccer Council, Mr. L. Munro, chairman of the Control Board of the Auckland Football Association and several members of the Auckland body. There was also a fairly large gathering of players and enthusiasts. The visitors will leave for Napier by train to morrow afternoon. They will be received by the Governor-General, Viscount Galway, at Government House to-morrow morning, and will be tendered a civic reception by the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, wiho is also president of the New Zealand and Auckland Football Associations. The following English amateur soccer team has been chosen for the first match of the visitors’ tour against the combined liawke's Bay-Poverty Bay -ride ut Napier on Thursday: L. T. Huddle, G. A. Strasser, H. S. Robbins, J. W. Lewis, B. Joy (captain), T. If. Leek, E. C. Collins, S. Eastman, R. J. Mathews, L. C. Thornton, L. C. Finch.

The team will spend a few hours in Palmerston North to-morrow between trains when they will be the guests of local Soccer enthusiasts.