THE GAME IN SWEDEN
SYSTEMATIC TRAINING. Rugby football is reported to have taken a firm hold in Sweden, where it was started about 18 months ago as a result of a visit by the British Fleet to Stockholm. But the Swedes appear to have taken up tho game much more systematically than many British players have. No one in Sweden, it seems, is allowed to play for a Rugby club unless he has attended evening courses in the game and has passed severe tests in tackling, passing and falling on the ball. The tackling test consists of three perfect tackles, from in front, behind and sideways, of a player going “all out.’ ’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 4
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