MODERN RUGBY
ALREADY' STRENUOUS. “A dangerous statement to make" is the comment oE Mr. V. G. Cavanagh, member of the management committee of the Otago Rugby Union, criticising the plea of Mr. A. A. Baker, chairman of the Auckland Rugby Unions’ management committee, for more strenuous Rugby in the Dominion. Mr. Cavanagh said on Wednesday morning that it was difficult to interpret the meaning of the word "hard” used by Mr. Baker, but whatever the conception placed on it Mr. Cavanagh is definitely of opinion that football in New Zealand is played too hard, but lacks method. Brute tactics were not wanted and if parents took that conception of Mr. Baker’s views there would be many parents who would hold that Rugby under those conditions was no game for their sons to play, and that was where his expression of opinion became a dangerous statement.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 8
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145MODERN RUGBY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 8
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