SYDNEY v.OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13271, 17 September 1906, Page 5

SYDNEY v. OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

, ■' ' . Dunedin, Sept. 15. The return ' football match, . Sydney University v. Otago UniV-ersity. was played to-day ■on the Caledonian Grour.d. Ra : in fell.in the morning; arjd the :grourid was heavy and greasy, «t3 also was 'the balL v A" stiff «out'h-west breeze wa!s ' -blowing;, "-with at. times- "a,; driving' .mist.'. Playing aHain'st t'h-e wind in t-he first spell> • tdie - « !Sy>dney players more tl^an helct^t-fifeir own, tilier io^wards playing a great ,game, paralysing iihf of , the local -backs, w;ho,.. failed' to ; score: It was evidint if tie", Sydney men. playcd'as wall, in the second spell, ,the 'game was,thsirs, but' .thejr faded away : to. nothing "somertd-me after the second, ispeli was. .gohig, and aftet persistent att-acks Gilray scored -a' clever try for Otago. ' Syihiey rallied and a penalty kick \ nearly equalised the scores, ' the JbWU Mrikanvj <the ;cr6Sisand 'falling Uiidern'oath.; Otago ,wpn by three, to^'nili*" ' ' '. • * Tie " Sydney. : - players'' io-day eoul'd I scarcely be recognised .as the. team 'whl^h Q|»ago v ran . over last Saturday - If the backs; bad beeW'strcnzer in attack - they must .'have won: