The Cambridge Rugby XV (who had very hard luck in
losing their best player, C. W. Jones, in their first match) will have done the United States a good service if they succeed in acclimatizing the Rugby game there in place of the football indigenous to the country. This is a good deal more like Rugby than Association (which, I believe, is not played in America) but very much inferior, with hardly any open play at all. That, at any rate, is my recollection of a crack match—Army v. Navy—which I saw at Baltimore some years ago. The travel of the ball from the halves right across the three-quarter line must be almost unknown. And in America there is an inexhaustible supply of substitutes ready to take the Place of any man knocked out. The fact that Cambridge played on with fourteen men after losing Jones provoked mystified astonishment.
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