"The only bad incident of a hard-fought game occurred in [the third] quarter. Matthews, trying to stop Nash, brought the heavier man down on top of him, and Nash seemed to very deliberately dig his heel into his smaller opponent as they lay on the ground. Anyhow there was a roar of disapproval from the crowd as a couple of men ran to pick up Matthews, who was temporarily out of action. Nash went up towards the centre and encountered Nemesis in the person of the powerful Wells. There was a clinch, and the Collingwood back was whirled off his feet and thrown heavily. No one resented Wells's action; in fact, they cheered him, and the account was completely squared. There was lots in the game that could not be called child's play, but this was the only occasion on which temper was shown.": Observer, "St. Kilda Revival: Collingwood Badly Beaten", The Argus, (Monday, 19 August 1907), p.4.
Nash, Robert, The VFA Project; note that (as at 9 December 2018) the site has mistakenly conflated the playing records of father (at Footscray) and son (at Coburg).
