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DateEvent1911 6 SepMessrs Dawes and Keil organising association 14 or 15 players12 SepMeeting at Shire Hall 8pm16 SepReport on Meeting: about 30 presentPractice match selected from Meredith,...
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Hiding Women's Football (Redux)Greg WernerIn a year when we, "football", celebrate 100 years since the beginnings of the women's game in Australia, a wholly manufactured game, AFLW, has pushed football...
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100 years ago today, 11 Feb 1921
QueenslandDaily Standard (Brisbane), Friday 11 February 1921, page 8The usual meeting of the Corinthian Football Club was postponed this week owing to the club having a "night" at a theatre, and a...
View ArticleTimeline of Soccer in Mildura 1911 – 1914
Very frustrating that I can't find the last few weeks of the 1914 season before it all goes pear shaped. The last game was a scratch match on 4 July. The article mentions a game planned for the...
View Article100 Years Ago Today 18 Feb 1921
NEWCASTLENewcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, Wednesday 16 February 1921, page 7WEST WALLSEND. West Wallsand and Woodpeckers' Soccer Clubs held a social and presentation of trophies In the...
View ArticleFRANK PARSONS SHORT BIO
Greg StockBorn 18 June 1926Played his junior football at Adamstown Rosebud then made his senior debut at age 17 in 1943. He spent a short period away with national service and played occasional games...
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100 Years Ago Today, 25 February 1921
QUEENSLANDDaily Standard, Thursday 24 February 1921, page 5"SOCCER" FOOTBALLQUEENSLAND ASSOCIATION'S ANNUAL MEETINGThe 34th annual meeting of the Queensland British Football Association was held last...
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QUEENSLANDDaily Mail, Tuesday 1 March 1921, page 9NEWS FROM THE COUNTRY.Buderim [?][end of the sports news] At the annual meeting of the Soccer Football Club the election of officers resulted as...
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100 Years Ago Today, 11 March 1921
QUEENSLANDDaily Mail, Wednesday 9 March 1921, page 4NEWS FROM THE COUNTRY.Buderim.Following the annual meeting of the local Soccer clubs, a week or so ago, clubs in the same code, have since been...
View ArticleFootball Returns to Narrogin
Saturday afternoon in Narrogin. It was just like old times. The Field of Play marked out with stiff white lines, the corner flags struggling to muster a flutter, the goal nets stretched and taught, and...
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Footscray Thistle Images
This mini-trove of Footscray Thistle material comes from the Footscray Historical Society (many thanks!). The photos span the period 1919-1932 and they contain some useful notes from those who donated...
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This fabulous story comes via Adam Muyt's research on Dutch football in Australia.It gives us some insight into the early rumblings of soccer in Perth in the early 1890s but it also presents us (a la...
View Article100 Years Ago Today, 25 March 1921
Age, Thursday 24 March 1921, page 10SOCCER FOOTBALL.A special general meeting will be held at the Amateur Sports Club on Wednesday next, 30th March, at 7.45 p.m, and the council of the V.A.B.F.A....
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IYKYH 25 March 2021
BooksBig O by Patrick SkeneThanks Ian. Sadly there is a couple of bitter people in the soccer community who spoil it for authors. There are some great stories in Aus soccer but the community needs to...
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100 Years Ago Today, I April 1921
Sun (Sydney), Thursday 31 March 1921, page 4SOCCER CODEThe New South Wales Fire Brigade football (Soccer) team held their annual meeting at brigade headquarters, and the following officers were...
View Article100 Years Ago Today, 8 April 1921
Sun (Sydney), Tuesday 5 April 1921, page 5SOCCER FOOTBALLCommonwealth Association(By "Goalkeeper")An endeavor is being made by the New South Wales governing body to rehabilitate the Commonwealth...
View Article100 Years Ago Today, 22 April 1921
NORTHTownsville Daily Bulletin, Friday 22 April 1921, page 5SOCCER.Idalia Rovers v. Railways.— V. Smart, McLennan. Cheetham, B. Lynam, Paterson, F. Bennett, Morrison, Birchell. Price, T. R Bennett,...
View ArticleEarly WW1 soccer casualities from WA
Western Mail (Perth), Friday 28 May 1915, page 29BRITISH ASSOCIATION.(By "Soccer.")As was to bc expected with such a large number of soccer players serving the Empire the lists of casualties and...
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Merewether Advance Roll of Honour
I've brought this up to date given that the replica board is well under construction.Northern Times 23 October 1917 reported that "a pleasing feature as far as Newcastle was concerned, that since the...
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