POINTS FOR FULL-BACKS
1. Keep your eye on the ball when hitting and b e careful about “sticks.
2. Try always to feel your forwards with accurate, controlled passes, but if you cannot reach your forwards use your half-backs. 3. Use a quick push pass when hard pressed in or near the circle. Remember that you have got to get that ball out of the circle. 4. When in doubt play down the particular flan!: on which you are stationed—left-back to left-wing and right-back to right-wing.
5. Study your opponents and the particular type of forward you have to mark.
6. Never play the ball across your own goal-mouth nor hit across the centre of the field near your own circle. 7. Never give up trying and at all times play to the whistle. Anil remember this: a back is not an umpire. If the decision is against you. keep quiet and take it. The umpire is not born who has not made a mistake. . . NOR IS THE BACK!
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Wanganui Chronicle, 24 July 1947, Page 8
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