SCHOOLBOY DROPS DEAD
WHILE FLAYING FOOTBALL {By Telegraph - Press Association] DUNEDIN, This Day. While playing for Tapanui High School at Tapanui yesterday in the annual Rugby match with Lawrence High School, Gordon Buchanan, aged 15 years, dropped dead. Deceased was a son of Mr David Buchanan, a forest ranger at Tapanui. He was running with the ball and when collared, he collapsed. It Is stated that he had been warned not to play football on account of heart weakness.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 25 June 1937, Page 4
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