THE N.Z. TEAM AT HOME.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11724, 27 November 1905, Page 5

THE N.Z. TEAM AT HOME.

AN APPRECIATIVE, ARTICLE.

Received November 25, 10.46 a.m. SYDNEY, November 25.

The Herald, in a leading- article, says that the triumphant progress of the New Zealand footballers with their unbeaten record and the large majority of points by which they have shown their superiority over their opponents, has naturally excited admiration in a community so sport loving as the British Empire. The New Zealanders have don© for football what, the Australians did for cricket. They have revolutionised the game and shown niceties of playing which were undreamt of in the Home Ilugby football. Cast-iron rules have been thrown aside or modified to meet the circumstances. What the New Zealanders did in the South African campaign they have done in the football field. Finding the orthodox position of players awkward and ineffective they introduced a formation which enabled them to exercise to the full the qualities of strength, quickness, and endurance which they possessed. Whilst concerted! movements have been organised to the fullest perfection individual action in times of crisis is not tabooed, so that the team had all the advantage which belong to a superbly regulated machine, besides those which may be legitimately counted upon as bound to follow from an intelligent use by individual players of such opportunities as may arise. The immediate result of the New Zealanders' visit to the Old . Country will doubtless be the, revising of methods which have boon shown to be antiquated.