RUGBY WITHOUT BOOTS
FIJIAN FOOTBALL TEAM Whether the backs in a Fijian Rugby football team which is to play a Maori team next month should wear boots or not was being discussed by the committee responsible for the team in Suva when a visit was Daid recently by Mr. A. D. Tench, to Christchurch. He said that it had been decided that it would be necessary for the forwards to wear boots, but it was thought that if the backs wore boots they would lose speed, which would be their principal advantage over the Maoris, who had a better knowledge of the game. Actually, he said, the Fijians could kick better without boots than with them.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19701, 5 August 1938, Page 11
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116RUGBY WITHOUT BOOTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19701, 5 August 1938, Page 11
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