FOOTBALL.
THE PROFE&SDONAL MOVEMENT.
(Per Pre;s Association)
_ AUCKLAND, January 7. ../•/•O.itoell, who i s closely iden■tmed with professional football in Australia, is visiting Auckland. He 'said the movement had obtained a very strong hold in th& Commonwealth Ho had interviewed leading players- here and there was small doubt that professional football had come to stay, despi-t^ the fact that the Rugby Union monopolised the bsst gjromnds. - Tho pro-Blacks on their return would give new life to tno movement, and in Auckland it would ba worked' for all it was worth /intercolonial matches Would b^ played and-it was hoped the professional team .would visit Sydney nest season.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 January 1908, Page 5
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106FOOTBALL. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 January 1908, Page 5
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