OLD TIME RUGBY
REFEREE ON HORSEBACK. How a referee in the back-blocks of the North Island conducted a game of Rugby football on horse-back is a story related by Mr S. Hallander, who was referee in the first test game against the British team at Dunedin. The game was being played on a ground that was practically a bog, and the referee had taken charge of the only spot- that was comparatively dry—about a square yard in area. He was controlling the game from that vantage point. A big came up to the knight of the whistle, leading a useful-looking horse, and said to him: “ Here, boss, you ride him ! ” And the referee did.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3305, 4 June 1931, Page 5
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114OLD TIME RUGBY Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3305, 4 June 1931, Page 5
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