FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1923, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

ENGLISH TEAM FOR SOUTH AFRICA. This Is from Old Ebor’s gossip in the Sports Post, Leeds: “The South African Rugby Board have Invited a British team to visit South Africa 1n the football season of 1923. I take it. this means that the British side wouldjiave to leave at the close of the current reason. Tho time seems short for the formation of such a team, but, of course, it could'bo done if the home unions take tho projeet up heartily and at once. The New Zealanders also are anxious to see a British Rugby team In their colony, but so far as one can discern, there Is no evidence of a keen desire on the part of the home authorities to embark upon a tour anywhere. The la,st British team to visit South Africa was sent nut by the Foothall Association, and the last visit to New Zealand was made by the Northern Union, and then by the New South Wales League. Surely It Is advisable that the English Rugby Union should ’not leave the Colonial fields—and fields in which their game is Indigenous —to unchallenged exploitation by rival bodies.” '