Coaching School for Young Rugby Players.

Banned last season because Wellington schoolmasters did not realise its true worth, a coaching school for young Rugby players is to be brought into operation in Wellington this season. When the scheme was first started, the schoolmasters took up the attitude that the young fellows were going to do too much, that they had sufficient Rugby in their own competitions. However, the scheme did not provide for games. It was based on sound instruction on the many phases of the game, with former representatives—or present stars of the Rugby world—showing the lads how to kick, pass and tackle.

With all due respect to schoolteachers, many of them are not in the fortunate position of having been sound Rugby players and any scheme to improve the standard of New Zealand's national sport—without interfering with the status of the men in charge—is worthy of encouragement.

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