FIELD OF SPORT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 121, 4 May 1936, Page 2

FIELD OF SPORT.

J, V _ v.-. ) American Rugby Team May Visit Commonwealth. ,\ / '0 '• A: -'i""-l ; GRQWTH OF GAME. j The time is definitely nearer when a combined American team will visit Australia to play Rugby Ufli'on, writes W. S. Hamilton M The Sun.- | J <

After some years of slow progress' Rugby is now firmly established,- at, the leading Eastern Universities as well as those in California. ' " The support/ of such institutions as Harvard, Yale and Princeton, is particularly important, not only because of their leading position in sport, 'but" also because of their social and academic prestige. Where these three lead, others may well follow, larly as 1 Princeton's was generally acknowledged the champion gridiron! teem last :f&|tafof j-tfce hundreds'-of.-; ,v # y?J

i Lack of Uniformity., I For, some time past feelers have j been *afe to theK.possibility-1 of a £eam representing the Califorrian Universities touring Australia, but, om various grounds, the idejuhaa not b?en encouraged. J'&V*' 1 International tours must receive the sanction of the International-. Board, and a difficulty has been the lack of uniformity in America'. A Unitedi&MtetJJßion^was forme<j,< but it was not able to function successfully owitlgi'to'Jthe practice of unlimited replacements adhered to by the Universities of Northern California. Thus, as* in the gridiron game, as many as 30 for a side ijl cue match. i/- \ ■ <i |l Advice has *ri"o' t w been received m'' Sydney that Northern California has screed to conform to the English' rules, and the United States Union v ill begin to function as a controlling and affiliated body. The way is now open for a tour of Australia,'but it is< left that the game should first become mere firmly established in America. .Mr T. Stewart™ prcsidentfttf the^Vancouver All El?gk|' who isVat presjeh#iu Sydney, is aiix® ious (ms, the 1939-40 Atutralian team phould'Tjeit America' on its return from England. : ■«»,, ;