CORRESPONDENCE.
FOOTBALL. To the Editor of the Herald. Sir, —Now that the football season is coming on, and most of the clubs are having their annual meetings, I think it would be advisable to hold a general meeting of the members of the various clubs to re-consider the rules, as it was only too patent during last season that the rules were in many respects too rough, causing injury in some instances. The "Kugby Union" rules arc very well adapted for schoolboys and light weights ; but when grown up persons, especially heavy ones, engage in the game, the rules are unsuitable, and admit of row"h play, as instanced by the way our team got knocked about at Wellington. A good change might be effected, and the game improved, by doing away with many of the present rules (some of them admitting of a double construction), and introducing some of the "Association" ones in their place.—l am, &c., Touch-down.
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New Zealand Herald, 30 March 1876, Page 3
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