FOOTBALL STRATEGY
HEADMASTER'S STORY That football matches are sometime® -won before they are played was shown by a true story told by the head master of Christ's College, Mr. R. J- Richards at the jubilee dinner for old I'OV3 of Christ's College and Otago Boys High School. Ho said that in one year in which he was captain of the collego first fifteen he had hoped for lino weather for the match, as College, who wero to play on their own ground, had a good set of backs. The speaker awoka on the morning of the match to find four inches of snow on the ground, with every prospect of a fine day. After much hard thinking ho approached the head master, who gave permission for the whole school to spend their firs period of the day's study in rolling tlio snow on the football field into big snowballs, which were rolled into the Avon. "The good citizens of Christchurc were astounded at the number of mini* 1 * ture icebei'gs which came drifting down tlio river," remarked Mr. Richard* The ground,'cleaned of snow, had < chance to be* dry, and college won match.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21562, 5 August 1933, Page 10
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