FOOTBALL AND GYMNASTICS
Dear "Full Back," — Having heard from several woll-known footballers that gymnastics and football do not agree, I beg to ask your opinion on the same; also, if it is expedient to do gymnastics the night before a football match. Hoping to see a reply in your columns,— l am, et<-..
FOOTBAXLEK AND GYMNAST.
[My own experience i* that football and gymnastics do agree — and agree -very well, t«.o This opinion i.s borne out by many arhlftf>s who have gone in for both exercises. Quite a number of tho front-rank footballers in Dunedin at the present day are member-, of gymnasiums, and can be 6een on the evenings of practice going through the lariouo- exercises with an energy and purpose which fits them for th» Saturday's gamo on the football field. Gymnastics used to be a particular branch of a certain club's training in Dunedin, and tho members felt the benefit of it when they had' a hard game to (play. Fe,s, by all means go in for gymnastics, and take sprintins; exercises at the conclusion of the night's work in .he gymnasium. After you have KOt over the stifFne=s ot the first night at gymnastics it does not matter when you practise, but the training combined with that of football must be reeular, ot no possible good will accrue —Full Back.]
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Otago Witness, Issue 2520, 2 July 1902, Page 60
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