Big Tongan Footballers
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For Australia
WHEN Vaea Tupou, aide-de-camp to Queen Salote of Tonga, arrived in Sydney in January, he stirred Australian football interest by announcing that arrangements were being made for a tour of Australia, in the 1956
winter, by a Tongan team of RugU Union footballers.
The Tongans have been in hai training for months, and they ai. expected to average 14 stonr Vaea Tupou himself, who probata will lead the team, weighs 17 ston and is 6 ft 2 in, tall.
“The backs will not be as faj as the Fijians,” said Vaea Tupo< “but they will be faster than tH Maoris and the All Blacks.”