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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 9. August 10th 1949
Association Football
Association Football
The team says: On the whole our chances this year in Auckland are rather slim but with the boycott on Bacchus and a belief in Communism t it is amazing what can be Achieved. For the sake of over-exuberant Aucklanders each player has been instructed to go prepared with three pairs of shin pads as well as sundry other protective devices.
The players:
- Watson (goal) has a moustache that fills most of the goal mouth.
- Windsor (right full-back)—new to the game, but uses his head in more ways than one.
- Bennett?, a versatile player.
- Hill has represented Otago for two seasons.
- Pilling—club and team captain. Has represented several provinces (they don't say what in).
- Gilbert possesses a right and a left foot—in fact, some say that he is all feet.
- Patterson (wing)—so tricky that his left doesn't know what his right foot is doing.
- Payne—a heavy inside forward in representative class.
- Harvey (centre-forward)—when he settles down (where?) he proves very handy. (At what?)