RUGBY FOOTBALL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 67, Issue 5642, 16 July 1943, Page 3

RUGBY FOOTBALL

REP. MATCH FOR SATURDAY The servicemen’s team to play Waipa reps on Saturday is the team selected from the Independent Tank Squadron No. 3 Troop (Pukekohe). The team arrives in Te Awamutu on Friday evening and will remain in Te Awamutu until Sunday morning. A good game should be witnessed by the public. Prior to the rep game a school boy seven-a-side will be staged to fill in the gap between the 3rd grade and commencement of the rep fixture. The Waipa rep team will be: Fullback Webby (AF); threequarters, B. Douglas (OB), E. Lawry (OB), A. Wall (AF); five-eigths Potier (OB) captian, B. Haliburton helf, Cumstone (OB); forwards KJohnstone (HG), Edwards (OB), D. Browd (AF), A. Thompson (HG), C. Emery (MHG), Forket (HG). Reserves: backs Mahoney (AF), Thornton (OB), forwards E. Holmes (OB), Woolford (HG). MATCH POSTPONED The Waikato-Auckland match set down for July 24, has now been postponed to July 31. Meet the President A man who has done much for junior fotballers is Mr William Whitton, president of the Waipa Rugby Union. Right along the years he has given encouragement to younger players and has thus helped in no small way to keep the old game going. One of the founders of the old United Club, winners of the championship, Bill Whitton has “boxed the compass” in administrative posts and was the first chairman of the Junior Advisory Board. When the football season end, ed Bill went into action as a cricketer, and for both branches of sport rendered good service—even to the extent of “dipping south” when club funds got low. He is still “on deck” at Albert Park.