Sports Bloopers
Hunt's Latest Howlers—Sports Bloopers
This page contains a selection of howlers relating to sport from Cecil Hunt's classic book of Latest Howlers, published in 1934. The selected extracts, edited and rearranged, are reproduced for readers in countries where Latest Howlers is in the public domain, which includes Australia. For other countries, please check your local copyright laws.
When a lot of goals are scored against you it is called a pylon.
The chief difference between Rugby and Soccer is the shape of the ball, but you can use your arms much more in Rugby without the ref seeing you.
From an Indian schoolboy's essay on cricket: Cricket is a very comfortable game; in it we disremember all our condition.
All ball games owe much to Newton's law which says that when a ball is sent up it is brought to earth by gratitude.
From a girl's essay on the rules of netball: Girls are divided in two parts. One lot wears red ribbon and the other nothing at all. There are two parsons who stand between them.
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