FOOTBALL INJURIES
CASUALTIES AT WHANGAREI [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] WHANGAREI, Monday Iu tackling a player during a llugby football match at Parako on Saturday, George Ruddell, aged 26 years, of the Mangakahia senior team, received an injury to the eye. Ho was brought to the Whangarei District Hospital, where it was found, lie was suffering from a hemmorhage of the inside of the eye. His condition to-day was satisfactory. While playing at Rugby Park for the Public Service junior team, A. L. Dodds, of the Public Trust Office, received a fracture of the nose. Another member of the team was requested to leave the field by the referee owing to having received a* kick 011 the side of tho head. In view of concussion cases in the past, the Whangarei Rugby Union is adhering strictly to the practice of last season that any player receiving a kick on tho head must leave tho field.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21492, 16 May 1933, Page 8
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