ON THE BALL
There is nothing so stimulating or so barbarous, not even a bull fight, as a game of football as conducted nowadays. Here is a biographical notice of one of the fellows who just came out of one :— He had a crutch, a single eye : His arm a bandage carried : Had half a nose, the marks of blows. As one by cyclone harried. They gathered round this hero grim With yells that jarred high heaven. While all who saw beheld with awe The star of their Eleven.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIII, 28 March 1896, Page 368
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89ON THE BALL New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIII, 28 March 1896, Page 368
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