FOOTBALL.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14869, 18 September 1918, Page 4 (Supplement)

FOOTBALL.

INTERCOLLEGIATI': GAMES. [Umtbd Press Association, j ' New ■ Plymouth, August 24. lhe first of a triangular scries of intercollegiate football competitions took j place to-day, when Auckland Grammar ! School met and defeated New Plymouth High School by 53 points (13 [ tries, five of which were converted, and one potted goal) to 10 points (two converted tries). The teams were fairly i even in the forwards, but in the backs It-ue local team were outclassed. New Plymouth, August 26. j Joe second match in the triangular | tourney was played io-day, when Auok- {■ land College and Grammar) -School ,deJ ieated Nelson; College oy 22 points- to !3. .Auckland, attacked for most 'of the1 game, ■'• but .until-)tlie>^concluding- twenty I •hiimites' Nelson^ s 'defence kept fliem at I bay, the score reading 3 alii Auckland Ithen -asserted ;,■their: superionty, and ; notched five more tries, two of them bejiiiii; converted.- For the winners triers ; were .scored by Wright, Grierson, Bad'ej ley,. Krohfeld, McCuilough, and Peart, j McCuilough and Badefey each converted jeno. For tho losers Mill, scored a try.