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The Spike or Victoria College Review October 1930

Football Club

Football Club.

After being up in the air for two seasons, the Football Club came down to mother earth with a resounding thud this year. To finish up bottom of the ladder after holding the proud position of premiers for two seasons, and then to lose the play-off, is a rather ignominious retreat, and this is so despite the extenuating circumstances to some extent existing in this case. The number of injuries, in the first place, was extraordinary, and this resulted in the team being changed around a great deal during the season.

Four games only were won by the Senior A fifteen—against Petone, who ultimately became champions, against Athletic, against Oriental, and a really fine win against Berhampore, who had twice defeated 'Varsity before during the season. The team also drew with Marist.

The play-off with Wellington created almost as much interest as the Championship final, and resulted in a win for Wellington by one point. An unfortunate mistake by the referee deprived our men of the game, but their performance in this match is to be praised highly, especially as they were without the services of their captain, who was unable to play through illness.

The following played for the First Fifteen during the season:—

Backs.—J. Black, F. Cormack, J. D. Mackay, N. Hislop, J. N. Goodson, E. K. Eastwood, P. Webb, L. Williams, F. S. Ramson, R. H. C. Mackenzie (captain), A. H. Irwin, D. Griffin, T. N. Foden, Sutcliffe, E. T. Leys, D. Mulvihill, J. K. Logan.

Forwards.— E. J. Aim, J. M. Edgar, A. Claridge, H. Macaskill, H. W. Cormack, C. Dixon, S. C. Childs, R. E. Deiderich, Hope, Banks, E. E. Blacker, Beaumont, J. Blakenay, M. E. Mahonye, H. Williams.

Representative Honours.—The following gained representative honours during the season:—Wellington Senior Representatives: J. D. Mackay, F. S. Ramson, R. E. Deiderich, E. E. Blacker, whilst R. H. C. Mackenzie was chosen, but was unable to travel. Junior Reps.: Young.

The lower grade teams met with fair success, the Fourth Grade team doing really well, whilst as for the Thirds, we are still unable to give an opinion as to which actually was the strongest team. The Championship points scored by the Third Grade teams were, however: Third A's, 14; Third B's, 10; Third C's, 8. This is a record for Third C's.