FOOTBALL.
NEW SOUTH WALES TEAM LEAVES N.Z. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON’, September 28. The Now South Walfes Itugby football team, having completed its tour of the Dominion, left Wellington tills afternoon by the Marunia for Sydney. Mr C. 13. Morgan, manager of the team, stated that the tour had been much more successful than had been anticipated. For a young and Inexperienced team “they have surprised the people of New South Wales.” he said, "and we are told that the enthusiasm there over the doings of the team has been practically unprecedented in NewSouth Wales. All this talk about bad luck we do not agree with at all. We have no complaint coming with regard to penalties, and that sort of thing. They are entirely our own fault, but they are not a line art with the team as stated In one “paper. They have been brought about through over-keenness and over-eagerness to do well. "From our point of view,” continued Mr Morgan, "the success of the team will do an immense amount of good to the game in New South Wales.” Throughout the tour the team had been wonderfully well treated, and Mr Morgan expressed, on behalf of the team, the keen appreciation of all that had been done by the Rugby Union officials and the public to make the tour so enjoyable.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18579, 29 September 1928, Page 7
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224FOOTBALL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18579, 29 September 1928, Page 7
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