FOOTBALL. NOTES BY FULL BACK.

Otago Witness, Issue 2650, 28 December 1904, Page 57

FOOTBALL. NOTES BY FULL BACK.

Bedell-Sivright, captain of the late British j team, has arrived Home. Despite what has been written of his retirement owing to injuries received in the colonies, iSivright turned out for West of Scotland against ' Blackheath * recently. "The Soots were beaten forward, although Bedell-Sivright was in the pack," which shows the British captain is thought muchly of in England. " Percy Bush, playing for Cardiff Reserves, sustained a fracture of the arm, which will keep him out of the game this side of Christmas." In fiction, football heroes ar© often kidnapped, but re-appear j\ist hi time to play in the great match, and score the winning \ • goal. In America an instance has occurred ■ in fact, but though the player was reecued ' in time, he could not play owing to injuries I sustained in his attempt to escape. [ The Scottish record of 101 points by Glasgow Academy has been, beaten in England. Last Eastor Tuesday Ossett scored 102 against Kinsley in a Yorkshire senior competition match. The death is announced of George Dob- ( son, Cardiff and Welsh international for- j ward, after a very brief illness. He hailed ' from Lhvynypia, but. gaining his cap against Scotland in' 1900, he did not take v his former interest in the game, although it 1 was generally thoug-ht that he had a great deal of football left in him. The English Foothall Association, at a meeting of council recently, appointed a committee consisting of Lord Kinnaird, Messrs C. W. Alcock, D. B. Woodfall, and G. S. Sherrington, to consider whether ar- , raugements can he made to accede to the request of the New South Wales and New Zealand Associations, that a representative JSnglish team be sent to the colonies. At the same meeting questions on the laws of the game received from th© New Zealand Association were referred to our Football Association's representatives on the International Board. ' It is intended to make the final selection of the. New Zealand team for Great Britain in Wellington on January 2. For that pui--po?e Mr Harris, one of the selectors, will I .leave Dunedin on Saturday next. ' Three members of the recent British team, Fisher, Massey, and Stanger-Laathes, took pa.rr in the county championship ma.tcli between Yorkshire and Northumberland, which I ended in a draw. Stanger-Leathes is said • to ha.vo played a fine game at full back for Northumberland, his long line-kicking being ■gr&atly admired The following proposal was on the notice , paper for the annual general meeting of the I English Rugby Union held on September 29: — A try equals 3 points, a penalty goal equals 2 points, a > goal from a try (in which case the try shall not count) equals 5 points, any other goal equals 3_points. At the request i o? the •oomxnittee the proposal was with- I drawn, but a vote w?.s taken as to the advisability of some change in the scoring laws being ma,de. There was a decided majority in favour of a change, and the committee promised to carefully consider the subject. They have decided to ask for the opinions of all the tlubs, and therefore have circularised secretaries, asking- them to con- j suit their committees and to reply to the fol- ' lowing questions: (1) Do they consider that an alteration is desirable? If so, (2) What alteration do they approve of? The South African Rugby Board, at their meeting held- in Capetown on October 15, decided unanimously to invite the New Zealand Union to allow the New Zealand team I coming to England next year to play a series j of njabohes in South Africa. • -In reply to the English Rugby Union circular re the proposed alteration in the scoring laws the Devon Rugby Union lion, secretary has been instructed to reply that the Devon Ringiby Union favours a. try scoring 3 points, a goal from a try 5 points, the try not counting, and any other goal 3 points. j I