Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 24 | Military Adopts Rugby Football

MILITARY ADOPTS RUGBY FOOTBALL LONDON. Marcn 17. The military authorities au-thorities have marked their appreciation of the value of Rugby football in these times by permitting a number of New Zealand soldiers to leave the front for a brief series of games In this country. The New Zealand trench team, as they may be described, will open their brief tour with a match against the famous Army Service corps fifteen, who, in the course of seventeen matches this season, have run up the tremendous score of Si'l points against 24. The Athletic ground, at Richmond, is to be specially reopened for this encounter.