DOG OƑFSIDE, BITES PLAYER
(Special) KAITAIA, This Day. With play on Awanui’s line as Rangaunu Bay forwards swept goal wards for a try in the senior Rugby football match at Waipapakauri on Saturday, the game was held up for five, minutes while St John Ambulance men on the ground attended to an unusual injury. In the thick of the critical defensive stage, T. Wallace, Awonui fullback, was bitten by a dog.
While dogs are generally regarded as part of the scenery on Far Northern country football fields, this was the first case on record in which canine sympathies had been excited to action by progress of the game. Allegations that Rangaunu Bay had enlisted the animal's cooperation to secure the try which followed shortly vyere strenuously denied by home supporters, and any thought of an official Awanui protest to the Mangonui Rugby Union was withdrawn.
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Northern Advocate, 17 June 1947, Page 2
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