"The Battle in the Football Field"

Here is a newpaper print by Ernst Prater (in The Graphic, Feb. 1917) captioned "The Battle in the Football Field"

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Full caption reads : "The war has proved the value of games generally, and of football in particular, as a  training for the grim business of the battlefield, and to mark their appreciation of the fact the authorities have permitted a number of New Zealanders to leave the front and play a brief series of games in this country for the benefit of the Red Cross. The tour, which concludes tomorrow (Saturday), began last Saturday with a match at the Athletics Grounds, Richmond, between the New Zealand Trench Team and the Army Service Corps, when the All Blacks were beaten by 21 points to 3"

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