RUGBY FOOTBALL
VO THE editor Sib,- —The Kew, Zealartd' Rugby Union’# interpretation of the rule with reference to taking a mark seems absurd. I noticed in a game that was played in the Otago/ district last Saturday, that a. player who attempted to mark a.: ball bn oc* ~ easions, could hot do so because both his feet were not on the ground. How ,does ’ the New Zealand .Rugby l Union _ expect a referee to tell always when a fair mark , is ' taken in these circumstances. To watch a player standing still waiting to, take a mark, and then to make a hole in . the ground for other ‘ players _to ..trip over, later on, hot interesting. ; T wonder what the 1924-25 All Blacks think of this rule. It is a, great pity, that it ever came into existence.—l am, ■ t :• J. n. c. K.,; ■,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21363, 17 June 1931, Page 10
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