ROUGH PLAY IN FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18760, 14 July 1924, Page 9

ROUGH PLAY IN FOOTBALL.

A WELLINGTON COMPLAINT

" There is no doubt that rough play is creeping into all the grades," remarked Mr. G. F. W. Jackson at a meeting of the Wellington Efugby Union's Management Committee, in raising the question of cautions to play era being notified. He urged that more attention should be paid by the union to cautions given by referees to players on the field, and he considered that offending players after receiving two cautions should be called before the committee. If a player knew that such a procedure was to be adopted, he contended, it would tend to stop the rough play. Other members pointed out that action in the direction suggested by Air. Jackson had been decided upon long ago, but evidently it had not been carried out. To make tho matter more definite, Mr. Jackson moved that the Referees' Association request referees to report all players who are cautioned to the Management Committee of the W.R. U. t and that any player, after receiving two cautions, be asked to appear before the committee. " You may nave g. player cautioned a dozen times, and yet no action bo taken," hd added. Tho motion was carried.