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Rh understanding that it goes hand in hand with the dribbling game, and that to have acquired the first without the second is at best only half the battle, and is likely to end in total defeat.

The splendid possibilities in the way of combination and of passing with the feet afforded by the dribbling game have never yet, so far as we are aware, been fully worked out. This development of the play we hope to see taken in hand by some competent team and brought to a state of perfection in the near future.

 

is not perhaps fully appreciated as yet that the captain of a football team holds just as difficult and responsible a post as the captain of a cricket team. The same sort of qualities are required for both, and both get in the course of a match those openings for the display of generalship which often decide the match. A bad captain misses the opportunities; a good one seizes them in one game no less than the other. In both games good captains are rare; but more so in football than in cricket, because good cricket has been played so much longer than good football, that the traditional knowledge of the game, as it should be played, is more widespread. In Rugby football, at any rate, the really great captains can be counted on the fingers of one hand. At the head of the list we do not hesitate to place W. MacLagan, of the London Scottish, and L. Stokes, of Blackheath. A young captain could learn more of his